Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following works are to be read for the approaching hour examination in Fine Arts 3: The first 295 pages of Oman, Reber's account of Archaic Art and Plutarch's Lives of Peisistratus, Aristeides Alcibades, and Sinon...
...Charles Waldstein Ph. D., Litt. D., L. H. D., permanent director, and Professor S. Stanhope Orris, Ph. D., L. H. D., annual director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance, to graduates of American colleges and to other qualified students; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to cooperate with the Archaeological Institute of America, so far as it may be able, in conducting the exploration and excavation of classic sites...
...Pierian Sodality has been invited to play at the Boston Art Club and the St. Botolph Club...
...Other colleges beside Harvard that receive the sum of $100,000 are Union College, University of New York, Rutgers College, Barnard School for Women, and Princeton (which was also not mentioned in the will). Brown, Wesleyan, Trinity, and various other colleges receive $50,000 and under. The Women's Art School of the Cooper Union is to receive $200,000. If after all these bequests there is a residue, Harvard is to have one part out of ten. Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the Women's New York Hospital, and the Presbyterian Hospital are to have the other nine parts...
...grasp of compositions as chord sequences which is characteristic of modern music-listening has led to a demand for relationship by common notes between successive chords and to a greatly extended use of the resolution of discord. These changes are evidence of a capacity for growth in the art to which it seems impossible to set limits...