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Moreover, art-based classes like Literature and Arts B-39: "Michelangelo" and Literature and Arts C-66: "Rome of Augustus" utilize the Web as a 24-hour image gallery, allowing more students to review the image than was possible when library slide carousels were the only option...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...
...Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, commenting on Lowell Lecture Hall after delivering in Latin Cicero's famous speech from 63 B.C.E. denouncing Catiline for plotting against the government in Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...
First, my classes this semester are consistently challenging, both in reading and in lectures. I am learning about the themes of American women writers, the scope of African-American literature, the range of California authors and the Rome of Augustus. Sated with a reasonable amount of sleep, I find myself arguing in my head with the professor during lecture and later going to office hours. I write notes in the margins about books I should check out from the library--and then I actually check them out. My mind spins during lecture with links to other books I have read...
...takes a year or two for a course to be fully fleshed out from the proposal," says Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, the professor of Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...