Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best within himself. The beautiful, it has been said, is greater than the good because it includes the good. We come nearest to the beautiful in poetry, indeed the test of poetry is its beauty. The neglect of poetry, and the consequent failure to appreciate the beautiful in art, not only deprives one of the most pleasurable of intellectual resources, but dulls the moral sensibility, and robs the character of its beauty and dignity. On the other hand a love for poetry transforms a man from a solitary individual into a part of the great human race, and reveals...
...reading room will be open and illuminated by incandescent electric lights. A stair case will lead up through the new stack to the reading room from the left hand fly door at the entrance of the present reading room. At the landing a door will be cut into the art room which will be cleared out and used for reading...
...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...
...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
...strange that the members of the Corporation, who are also trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, should have had to choose between Harvard and Boston: no man can serve two masters. But the deliberate preference they have apparently given to the Boston Art Museum was not to have been expected of them...