Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many years one of the buildings most needed at Cambridge has been a hall for our art collections. Professor Norton and others have written eloquent appeals on the subject, but to no purpose until now. By the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins Fogg. the widow of William Hayes Fogg, which was made public in New York Thursday, the President and Fellows of Harvard University receive $200.000 for the erection of an art museum, to be called "The William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard." $20.000 additional is left for the care and maintenance of the museum. Moreover...
...Newton has given Amherst nearly $40.000 with which to endow a chair of Sculptural Art...
...Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars upon the trust and the uses following. that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to it in a suitable and desirable situation an Art Museum to be called and known as the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard College, to be a fire proof structure of ornamental and appropriate architecture to be used for the collection and exhibition of works of art of every description and for the education and enlightenment of the people...
...further give and bequeath to the said corporation the sum of twenty thousand dollars upon trust to keep the same invested upon good income paying securities or property and to apply the income thereof from time to time towards the expenses of maintenance and care of the said Art Museum, and the surplus of such income, if any, to the purchase of works of art to be added to the said museum...
...very high grade of music, being descriptive and imitative in character. the last one suggesting a sleigh ride in Norway. The piece of Dvorak's, with which the concert closed, a sort of idealized waltz, showed plainly the great advance that has been made in the art of writing for orchestra since Haydn's day, and made a brilliant ending...