Word: jardine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danse dans un Pavilion de Jardin (see cut), painted about 1718, is one of the famous Fêtes Galantes of Watteau's maturity. Watteau ran away from home, did hack work, was rescued by rich friends, resented their kindnesses, died young (37) of tuberculosis. But he lived in Paris in a graceful period and reflected its graces...
...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...
Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...