Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third volume of the "Iconographic Encyclopaedia" has just been published, and contains a comprehensive treatment of the subject of Sculpture and Painting. Professor Alan Marquand is the general editor and has charge of the work, also furnishing the text on Ancient Art. Professor Frothingham conducts the department on early Christian and Mediaeval Art. There are to be some fifteen more volumes published. Dr. McCosh's lectures on AEsthetics and Evolution have also been recently published in book form...
...episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases the two are represented as conquerors of mankind, and are therefore clothed as warriors, but this type soon yields...
...concert in aid of the Harvard University Boat Club will be given by the Glee Club, Pierian Sodality and Banjo Club, at the Young Men's Christian Association Hall, Boston, on Tuesday evening, March 6, at 8 o'clock. The number and character of the patrons and patronesses of the undertaking should insure its success. The tickets, one dollar each, may be obtained at Herrick's Theatre Ticket Agency, Hotels Vendome and Brunswick, and at Clarke and Carruth's in Boston; and at Sever's University Bookstore in Cambridge. There are no reserved seats...
...There will be a meeting of the Y. M. C. A., this evening, in Lawrence Hall at 6.30. All those who are interested in the Christian welfare of the college are earnestly invited...
...congregation, however, consisted chiefly of Cambridge citizens, as the approaching mid-years prevented many students from coming. After the introductory prayer by Dr. F. G. Peabody, the choir sang the selection "Lovely appeared over the Mountains," from Gounod's Redemption. The for thieth Psalm was read, and Shelley's "Christian, the Evening waits before Thee," was sung. Rev. Dr. McKenzie spoke briefly of the importance of developing our spiritual natures. He alluded to the religious lives lead by earlier members of the University, and exhorted his hearers to profit by their example. His words were earnest, and those who were...