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...used its full text as the body of what he feared might be his own last Thanksgiving Day proclamation from the White House. Instead of casting about for current items for which to be thankful the President reissued the 143-year-old document because "this year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, the Father of Our Country...
...dedication on his three-hundredth anniversary of two monuments to William Shakespeare directs attention to the large part which Americans have played in honoring the poet. The quiet and fruitful work of American scholars has carried on for many years, but the co-operation of some of the financial leaders of the country is a more recent development. In opening the new theatre at Stratford both the Prince of Wales and the poet-laureate paid tribute to the American donors without whom the building could not have been erected. On the same day the Folger Memorial Library of Amherst College...
...address by Bliss Perry, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, will feature the second festival in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the life and works of Goethe, to be held in Sanders Theatre, Tuesday evening, March 22, at 8 o'clock. The date is just 100 years after the date of the death of the German poet. As a subject, the Harvard speaker will discuss "The Road to Weimar...
...Augsburg has been limited, for he lived at the height of the German Renaissance, and his work was contemporary with that of Duerer, Cranach, Gruenewald, and Altdorfer, men whose artistic merits have been perhaps disproportionately praised in comparison with such a genius as Burgkmair. Last year was the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death and exhibitions of his works at Augsburg and Munich have increased the general interest in him and the appreciation of his significance for German art. Burgkmair was born in 1473, the son of an artist; he studied at Colmar in Alsace, under Martin Schongauer...
...connection with the hundredth anniversary of the death of Johann von Goethe, an exhibition of some of his work has been opened recently in the Germanic Museum. The exhibition consists of letters and manuscripts by Goethe, photographs of stage settings of "Faust," and illustrated editions of his works. Among the latter are those by Eugene Delacroix, founder and leader of the romantic movement in French painting, and by Ludwig Richter, noted German illustrator of the nineteenth century...