Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most important drawing is one by Antonio Pollaiuolo; a part of the painter's cartoon for his engraving of "The Battle of Naked Men." This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to see this masterly drawing of human figures. The exhibition will continue until April...
...latest criticism of President Lowell's report to the Overseers seems to me particularly unthinking, even for journalism. The purchase of property between the Avenue and Charles River is a further step toward making Cambridge fit for human habitation. Days may dawn when, in spite of abattoir, trolleys and funeral processions, Harvard will breathe a sense of academic labor and repose. We must not fall into the national blunder of making a desert of empty buildings and calling it scholastic peace, but even such misuse of money would be wiser than the increasing of instructors' salaries...
...here were shown for six months at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Italian school in its various phases is represented by Tintoretto, Correggio, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Parmigiano, Romano, and others. The most important drawing in the collection is one by Antonio Pollaiuolo--a masterly representation of human figures--part of the painter's cartoon for his engraving of "The Battle of Naked...
...talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...however essential for historic record, are likely to convey but an inadequate idea of a man's real life and work. In the present case they are even less significant than usual. The key to the characters and career of the man whom Harvard mourns today was his overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made him a host of friends, young...