Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...includes a general review of the improvements of the past year, and contains numerous suggestions for other lines of improvement. The changes in the faculty are reviewed as indicative of a general strengthening in instruction throughout all departments. The desirability of founding a chair in architecture in the art school is mentioned. The report calls attention to the significant fact that the Yale faculty includes 30 more instructors than last year and 78 more than in 1886. The need of an endowment of $2,000,000 for supporting the faculty is mentioned. The general receipts of the university the last...
...first thought was that religion is both a science and an art, and that full understanding of it as a science is not essential before a man may begin to practise it as an art. Pure speculation is by no means useless, and there are men who seem to be fitted, above everything else, for investigating scientifically the place of religion in the world. White we eagerly await the results of these men's researches. and while every man may push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason...
There will be on exhibition for a few days in the Art Room of the Library a Latin address presented by over seventy American scholars to Professor Heinrich Brunn, the archaeologist, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. The address, which was drawn up by Professor Lane, is engrossed and illustrated on parchment in an alphabet of the time of the Emperor Claudius. The subscribers will also send a gold medal, with appropriate devices and inscriptions...
...author suggests that "nuclei of the quasi corporations needed for the functions once discharged by classes at Harvard may possibly be found in certain of the college societies, those consisting of students who come here to work and not to dawdle." Professor Moore contributes "The Study of the Fine Arts in Universities and Colleges." It is a very interesting article explaining that to undergraduates the Fine Arts should be taught only to "awaken a sentiment of beauty in the minds of educated men, and to lay the foundations for a discriminating judgment with regard to works of art." Anything beyond...
...FINE ARTS 3. - The Greek history, Greek temple architecture and early Greek art will be reviewed this evening at 7.30, in Room 9. Roberts Hall Building. 15 Brattle St. Fee $2.50. Gentlemen will confer a favor by not opening accounts for reviews...