Word: copper
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little known to most undergraduates, but of growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers of art. The collection of original marbles includes the well known Meleager, of the type attributed to the great sculptor Scopas. In the Print Room is an exhibition illustrating the whole history of engraving on copper, and many of the finest impressions of the collection are shown...
...bulk of the undergraduate contributions are evenly divided between essay, sketch, picture, story, and verse. Mr. B. P. Clark's "Fancies" is an excellent example of the new freedom in verse that is opening up much inner spirit, even though it sacrifices part of the poet's charm. "The Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand...
...Storer was the author of notable scientific works including 'Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances," "Manual of Inorganic Chemistry," "Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis," (both in co-operation with Dr. Charles W. Eliot '53), "Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry," "Bulletin of Bussey Institution," "Alloys of Copper and Zinc," "Manufacture of Parafine Oils," and other scientific works...
Development of Copper Engraving...
...exhibition illustrating the history of copper plate engraving has just been placed in the print room of the Fogg Museum. Some of the finest and most valuable prints belonging to the Gray and Randall collections are shown, including an Otto print, which is a unique impression, remarkable impressions of plates by Durer, among which are the Knight of Death, St. Jerome, and Melancholia, and many others showing the development of the art from the earliest times...