Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...courses to be given for the benefit of teachers during the new academic year is now in press, and will soon appear. The plan has been already mentioned in these columns, and some further particulars are at present forthcoming. At its last meeting, then, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences decided to offer, during the academic year 1891-92, a series of courses, open to men who are graduates of Colleges or Scientific Schools, and "to others of suitable age and attainments" (under the same conditions as those which now govern admission to the Graduate School). These...
Professor Norton requests all members of Fine Arts 3 to go in to the Boston Museum of Art and look at the Parthenon sculptures so as to be able to pass an examination on them...
...course in normal training is to be established at Harvard, and an assistant professor in the art of teaching will be appointed. Besides this about a dozen different half-courses dealing directly with the teaching of the special subjects will be given by departments in college which have work equivalent to entrance examination requirements. The matter will be brought before the Faculty at their meeting on Tuesday next...
...art of teaching by stories is deeply rooted in humanity and has been used by all great teachers and leaders. Buddha, Socrates, and ascending in the ages Martin Luthur and Abraham Lincoln used it. The Lord taught in this same way by the use of his parables. Professor Palmer then went on to mark out the character of the parable and to define the meaning of the word, leaving until his next lecture the discussion of what Christ really taught by his parables. Parable really means a comparison or likeness, and as in all speech we are simply executing comparison...
...Canadian Art and Artists," W. Blackburn Harte shows the growth of art life in Canada, and reveals incidentally the strange public indifference toward art which prevails in the commercial centers of the Dominion. The article is well illustrated, and contains portraits of all the leading Canadian artists, and examples of some of their best and most representative work. In an article on "The United States Patent System," Mr. James Shepard, a well-known electrical expert, gives an intelligent and comprehensive account of the statutory provisions for patent protection from the day of the first Congress; and he also makes...