Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...facilities for education at Amherst are excellent. The college takes a particular pride in its large collection of plaster casts of ancient and modern sculpture which is second to none in the United States except the one in Boston. For this museum of fine art the college is indebted to Professor Richard H. Martin, who started the collection in 1874, and has been untiring in his efforts to enlarge it ever since. The chemical laboratory is not up to the modern standard, but in all the other departments of learning, ample opportunity is offered for work. The faculty. under President...
...university is unwilling to make public the cost of the following buildings, several of which were built by private subscription: The Readingroom, 1819; the Treasury, 1832; the Art school, 1866; the Bacon Memorial library, 1881; the Bacon Memorial library, 1881; the Observatory, 1882; and Dwight hall, 1886. The total value is near...
...Boston Art club has sent complimentary tickets for the annual exhibition to the members of the Glee club...
...lecture courses are an nounced: a course of University Lectures, by Dr. McCosh, on "The Prevailing Types of Philosophy, Can They Reach Reality Logically?" to begin early in the second term, and a new course of lectures, by Professor Frothingham on "Monastic Art" to be given once a week throughout the year. Announcement is also made of the new Electrical Engineering course, stating the time required, course of study, and the conditions upon which applicants are admitted...
...Art...