Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mott Haven team. The success of this team forms an instructive contrast to the failure of our crews. Moreover, the trainer of the crew need not necessarily be an oarsman himself any more than Mr. Lathrop is a sprinter. An intelligent trainer can make himself master of the art of applying ones muscles to an oar without himself actually excelling in the art. Such a trainer might be sent to England to study the art of rowing in an eight oar; for it is reasonable to suppose that something can be learned in the country where eight oar rowing...
...trustees of the Pa. Museum and School for Industrial Art have been offered $100,000 for the purchase of certain buildings, on the condition that a like sum shall be raised by the trustees. The giver is said to be William Weightman of Philadelphia...
...COURSE IN LITERATURE AND READING ALOUD.A new voluntary course in English Literature and the Art of Reading Aloud will be given by Mr. Copeland during the second half-year. The second meeting will be held in Sever 11, on Friday, March 10, at 3.30 p. m. A great variety of authors, ranging chronologically from Shakespeare to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, will be discussed and read from; and novels and plays - with some account of famous modern performances - will make a large proportion of the course. Meetings are to be held once a week; and the hour will be divided between reading...
Massachusetts has the only state art normal school in the country...
There are 207 art schools under the auspices of the British government, with a total of 47,316 students...