Word: museum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this time the Museum was in a shanty and stuffed with more than it could hold. In spite of Agassiz's immense labors in connection with the Museum, which was handicapped by lack of space, lack of funds and lack of helpers, he managed to accomplish no end of original work in zo-ology...
...impossible to be a productive naturalist in this country without money. I am going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make the mines a paying investment, to undo the false steps that had been taken, and of the marvelous success that ultimately attended it reads like a romance...
...announcement of the courses which will be offered by the Commission on Extension Courses during the year 1913-14 has been prepared, and the list is given below. The commission represents Harvard University, Tufts College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley College, and Simmons College, and is empowered to confer the degree of Associate in Arts at Harvard, Radcliffe, Tufts, and Wellesley. All of the following courses, which are open to both men and women who are properly qualified, will carry credit toward such a degree except when otherwise stated. Further information...
There has been opened in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum an exhibition of work done by students in the free-hand drawing courses of the Fine Arts Department. The exhibition illustrates a new experiment in the adaptation of the teaching of drawing and painting to the requirements and limitations of the college curriculum--an attempt to make this teaching correspond to that of other college subjects of somewhat similar nature. The first course is an elementary course on the principles of drawing and painting, corresponding to a course on rhetoric. The following courses are practice courses, in which...
...part will probably contain more geological than archaeological specimens at first, though the Peabody Museum will utilize the spaces as far as it is needed. There will also be a large library, containing the united libraries of the Museums. A projection will extend in toward the north, providing rooms for a few offices. Also a public entrance will be erected here, corresponding to the door on the opposite wing - the east wing of the other building. Thus the symmetry which was originally planned will be completed...