Word: childe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several prominent professors in Eastern colleges, among others Prof. Child, of Harvard, have spoken quite highly of the Shakspere course references recently issued by Prof. Demmon. - [Chronicle...
Professor Child deserves commendation for his efforts to secure good ventilation in his classroom...
...April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical conditions. We cannot, even at Harvard or Balliol, hope to bring back those conditions. . . . The preface contains, perhaps, the briefest and most lucid account ever yet given of the nature and aims of the Greek drama, and of the functions of the chorus." Mr. Lang...
Probably the richest coloring in the exhibition is to be seen in the two examples of Piot. One is a large figure picture representing two richly dressed Italian peasant women offering an orange to a pretty child, upon whom the attention is centred. The drawing is superb, and the flesh tints, though delicate and soft, do not possess the naturalness of a Bouguereau. Yet many prefer Piot to the latter...
...American school at Athens is the direct offspring of the Archaeological Institute of America; the Archaeological Institute of America itself was in the first place a child of Harvard; therefore, the relations of the three are of the most intimate nature. The Archaeological Institute was organized in 1879 with Charles Eliot Norton as president, and with Prof. Goodwin and Alexander Agassiz on the board of directors. Since its organization its work has grown to be of national importance. The two most important results of its labors hitherto have been the well-known explorations carried on recently in Mexico...