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Professor Theodore Reinach of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Lt.-Colonel in the French Army and Editor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts" will lecture in English on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art" in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30. Professor Reinach is a member of a mission of the foremost French scholars recently arrived in this country in response to the requests of American universities to interpret to them the dominant elements of French culture. The lecture today will be open to the public...
Professor Theodore Reinach, of the Academic des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and Editor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", is to give a lecture in English on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art" in Fogg Art Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture, held under the auspices of the Division of the Fine Arts and the Boston Society of the Archaelogical Institute of America, is open to the public...
...several years Sabine was so much engrossed in teaching and in giving informal guidance to promising students, who came to him by a sort of inevitable attraction, that he found little time for further work of research. But the building of the Fogg Museum started him on a career of investigation and invention which has been unique...
...auditorium of this Museum proved to be hopelessly bad in its acoustic qualities, and President Eliot, who had learned to appreciate Sabine's qualities, asked him to find a remedy. Up to that time success in the building of an auditorium seemed to be almost a matter of chance, and the best architects acknowledged it to be such. In fact it was one of the most famous architects in America who had designed the Fogg Museum...
Sabine undertook the task put before him, and worked at it assiduously for some months with entire success so far is the auditorium of the Fogg Museum was concerned. But he was not content with this success. He proposed to study himself the problem of acoustics with such thoroughness as to make it a part of science. In the course of a few years he was able to do what no other man, so far as we know, had ever been able to do, that is, to foretell with confidence and accuracy from the mere plan and materials...