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...letter to the Boston Post a few days ago, attention was called very earnestly to a great defect now existing at Harvard in the facilities offered for the study of art. The writer took the position that art could not be studied intelligently at Harvard, because the apparatus most needed, namely a collection of pictures, is entirely wanting. The student knows little of art and his knowledge can be little increased by attendance upon lectures or by perusal of books on art. Nothing can make up for the absence of the actual picture by which alone the impression of form...
...great want, therefore, as suggested by the writer of above-mentioned letter, is a collection of illustrations of the masters which can be used by all students. Copies and engravings are far too valuable to be available for such a collection, but photography has supplied the means of forming a comparatively cheap, yet none the less useful collection of pictures. Colleges much smaller than Harvard have begun the collection of pictures, and consequently art is better taught in these colleges than at Harvard. In no direction could steps for the improvement in methods of instruction at Harvard be more consistently...
Semitic Seminary. Letter from Mr. G. R. Carpenter ( Rerlin) in the value of the study of Semitic archaeology. 7 Lowell street...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Letter from Mr. G. R. Carpenter (Berlin) on the value of the study of Semitic archaeology. 7 Lowell street...
...also Jay's Letter to Evarts, 6-16; Public Opinion, March 3, 1888; Elliott, The Northeastern Fisheries...