Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...personal idiosyncrasy, and to have less certainly that the truth he has reached is not a one-sided one, and that there are not fifty others equally important, and (perhaps) equally unsatisfactory. Every bait is not for every fish. We begin by admitting the old Doctor's apothegm that Art is long; we gradually become persuaded that it is like the Irishman's rope, the other end of which was cut off. So different is Art, whose concern is with the ideal and potential, from Science, which is limited by the actual and positive...
...collection of glass flowers has won the most attention, and no collection in the whole Museum is examined by so large a number of visitors. It has the fascination of combining the work both of science and of art. Harvard is proud of it not only because it is unique but because it can, without any sentimental exaggeration, be called wonderful...
...North American continent is divided into districts which are more or less definitely distinguished by the differences in the characteristic forms of art and culture among the ancient inhabitants. There was one type of art on the northwestern coast, another in a district that begins south of this and extends eastward past the Great Lakes and by way of the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic coast; two districts adjoining each other in the middle Atlantic region and extending to the west and south; the Pueblo district in the southwest, and another around California. There are marks of a migration from...
...learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration of men destined to devote their whole future to scholarship, science, philosophy, criticism, or art, and of students laying serious foundations of lifelong culture,- the leaders in the coming generation in the search for new knowledge, the establishment of new standards, and the creation of new intellectual forms...
...exhibition of Japanese colored photographs will be held at the Harvard Art Store, 3 Harvard Row, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. An explanatory lecture will also be given. The pictures will be for sale...