Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have shown, then, that our people are ready for their great sculptor; that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form...
Faculty of Art and Sciences. Meeting at University...
Cornell College has sent a petition to congress requesting that a Road Department be established in Washington, similar to the Agricultural Department, the purpose being to promote knowledge in the art of constructing roads. The petition further asks that the department make provisions for the teaching of students in road engineering, and also that Congress appropriate sufficient funds to erect a building for a comprehensive road exhibit at the World's Fair...
...most important contribution to the number is entitled "A Few of Lowell's Letters" They were addressed to the art-critic and appreciator, Mr. W. J. Stillman. They are filled with clever things and a fascination which make them delightful reading and gives us an idea of of what Lowell, not the poet - but the companion - the friend - must have been...
EXTEMPORARY SPEAKING.Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., will address the members of the University on the Art of Extemporary Speaking, in Sever 11, at 4.30 p.m.; Wednesday...