Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside of a museum, although why it is better to see art in one place than another I do not know. And he extols the very inadequate method of art appreciation through books (which no matter how well written can give only slightly the beauty of the original), lantern slides (which because of their lack of color can only vaguely suggest the perfection of a work of art), and, lastly, hard work (which without the painting is next to useless from the point of view of appreciation). The writer seems to forget that the idea of any university should...
...weakening effect of such "art" on the student body. What will happen if students are allowed, nay, even encouraged to get their appreciation of works of art by first-hand contact with them outside of a museum, instead of by the only sound methods which are books, lantern slides, and hard work. They may be persuaded that mere enjoyment of art is the end desired. They will surely forget that criticism and the knowledge that will fit them for the curatorship of a museum are the worthwhile parts of artistic study. We have here been, we are glad...
...moving pictures of the preparations and take-off and of the movements of the balloon in flight several miles above the earth, Captain Stevens showed several photographs of the earth's surface taken at high altitudes through the bottom of the gondola in which the men were enclosed. Lantern slides pictured some of the processes used in the construction of a balloon and explained the highly complicated scientific and mechanical apparatus which the balloon contained...
Happy last September was Simon Moulton Hamlin, lantern-jawed, 240-lb. strawberry farmer, when Maine's First District elected him its first Democratic Congressman in some 70 years. Happy was he last month when, at 68, he married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving in Washington a week later he happily informed interviewers that he had no intention of abiding by the House tradition of silence for first-termers. Twanged he: "I'm almost always foolish enough to speechify...
...subject of the lantern slides was the trip to the Aegean which Professor Forbes made last summer accompanied by some Harvard students...