Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Charles Norton, was a member of the class of '88, at Harvard, and for the last three years has been studying at the American School in Athens and at the University of Cambridge. At Bryn Mawr Mr. Norton will offer courses in classical and in early Italian art, and the Trustees have appropriated a sum for the purchase of photographs for use in connection with these courses. Dr. Earle received the degree of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia, and continued his classical studies at the American School in Athens and at Berlin...
...University has been most fortunate in the opportunity of hearing addresses by two most eminent men. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson spoke Tuesday evening to a large and enthusiastic audience upon his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Joseph Jefferson gave an informal talk on "Acting and the Drama," in the Art School on Thursday. The room was crowded to its utmost capacity and the speaker was given a rousing reception...
...Jefferson created something of a sensation by denouncing in unmeasured terms the practice at Yale and many colleges, of giving no attention to pure dramatic art, but giving farce comedies such as "Mr. Napoleon," the play in preparation by the Yale Secret Societies. Mr. Jefferson looked on the practice as a sign of degeneracy...
...Fogg Art Museum is almost ready for occupation. The kalsomiming is not yet done but the floors are laid and the woodwork and plumbing finished...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 2. - Joseph Jefferson, the actor, lectured at Yale today on "Dramatic Art." He was introduced by President Dwight, and a crowded and fashionable audience was present...