Word: directors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...director's meeting last evening it was decided to hold a "Smoker" on Monday evening at 16 Weld. The president was empowered to form a committee to take charge of the dinner, which will probably take place a week from next Friday, and one to arrange the race meeting next spring...
...Athletic Games upon Greek Art." A number of large drawings were used by the lecturer to demonstrate his theory. The Association invited painters, sculptors, writers, and others to attend, and the crowded audience was thoroughly interested throughout. It is to be hoped that Dr. Waldstein's duties as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, England, and his lecture courses in the University there, will not prevent other visits, in the lecturing season, to his native city. The solid, and at the same time popular, instruction given by this scholarly and eloquent speaker is just what is needed in America...
...observatory at Columbia is on top of the library building. The great need, Professor Rees, its director, has said, was a special endowment. An endowment fund of $150,000 or $200,000 would make it the finest observatory in the country. The college had spent so much money in new building that it could not specially endow the observatory...
...Charles Waldstein, of the class of '75, Columbia College, and now lecturer in King's College, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, will give three lectures on art and archaeology, at Columbia college, on the following two subjects: "The Influence of Athletic Games on Greek Art;" "The Spirit of the Art of Phidias." These subjects we know are of fully as great interest to the student of Harvard as of Columbia. It the Harvard Art Club had given any assurance of the least vitality during the present year, we would suggest that it make an effort to induce...
...finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley" and others of his stirring novels. It is now the property of the college and has held since...