Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...point, however, deserves particular commendation. This is the evident effort to confine punning, pure and simple, to the "By the Way" column, so long avowedly devoted to the pursuit of that noble art. There is still room for improvement in the same line, but it is a long step in advance to purge the editorial page of such self-confessed twaddle as has at times appeared there, and to substitute for it the sound opinions on events of the day which appear in the present number...
...vote of the Corporation, Monday, it was finally decided that the Gray collection of engravings should be brought from Boston and placed in the Fogg Art Museum...
...famous Gray collection was bequeathed to Harvard College thirty years ago by Francis Calley Gray of the class of 1809. For some years it remained in Gore hall, until in 1876 it was loaned to the Boston Art Museum, there being at the time no place in Cambridge suitable for its safe-keeping. The loans were made for seven years at a time and the third term expired this spring, so that at last it is possible to bring the collection to the Fogg Art Museum...
...object of the collector was to secure the best works of the great masters. Many of the engravings are valued as beautiful and accurate transcripts of paintings, others for some peculiar merit of their own or because they are important in the history of art. Thus there is a specimen of the work of the earliest known German engraver and also an Italian engraving of a very early date...
Last evening, in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, Prof. Walker, of Hartford, Conn., gave a lecture on "The Validity of the Ordination of Ministers and Pastors of the New England Churches...