Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of his series of four lectures on the Study and Teaching of History. He said: The lectures to which I invite your attention are a part of the new pedagogic scheme. Personally, however, I have little faith in the science of pedagogy. Teaching is the practice of an art, not the demonstration of a science, and art, I think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they...
...German university a student's matriculation card shields him from arrest, admits him at half price to the theatres, and takes him free to art galleries...
...State ownership is constitutional; Constitution, Art. 1, & 8; Hamilton's Works IV, 109-111; - (a) It is the natural right of a State to protect itself. - (b) Precedents prove this, e.g., Subsidizing of Railways, canal and steamship lines, Interstate Commerce, post office, Prison manufactures...
...subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very proper then that we should turn to Shakspere, the glory of English and universal literature. The facts of his life are derived from authorities of two kinds...
...trait. He had an unusual shyness of all publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist has done nothing until he has concealed himself." If the converse be true, Shakspere is truly a master...