Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Conference yesterday evening Professor Goodwin, in a most interesting lecture, gave an account of the apostle Paul's visit to Athens. Athens at the time of Paul's visit retained all her ancient splendor and glory. The city was filled with the most beautiful works of art, and Paul, a native of obscure Tarsus, must have felt, as he looked about its streets, much as an obscure Yankee from a New England village would feel if he were set down before the art treasures of Florence, Rome and Venice...
...forces of the world happiness, knowledge and power, and becomes himself a source of these. It is this alone which can keep clean the channels of communication between man and the forces of nature. We mean when we speak of belief in nature, in institutions, in art, an intimate sympathy, a perfect openness of relation, and a frank understanding. And the same is true when we speak of faith in God. It is only this which makes possible a true relationship between man and God. To the man of perfect faith God giveth all things...
Last Wednesday Professor Norton lectured at the Institute of Technology on "The Culture required of an Artist." Tonight his subject is "Architecture as a Fine Art;" and next week he will talk on "The opportunities of the Architect in America...
About one hundred and sixty photographs have been placed on the frames in Sever B, arranged to illustrate the history of the art from the lion gates at Mycenae and the archaic reliefs and statues recently found in Athens and elsewhere down to the times of Scopas and Praxiteles and their pupils. With most of the photographs references are given to the pages of Reber's History of Ancient Art, Perry's Greek and Roman Sculpture, and Murray's History of Greek sculpture where the subjects are described. The room is open to members of the university at any time...
...announcement made in the CRIMSON several days ago of the requirements for the coming examination in Fine Arts 3 was not entirely correct. The work required consists of the first 295 pages of the Oman, Reber's account of Archaic Art, and Plutarch's Lives of Aristeides, Cimon, Pericles, and Themistocles...