Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career consists of "part madness, part love, part curiosity," declared Francis H. Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum, last night at the Career Conference on Fine Arts. Taylor agreed with the other panelists that a career of music and painting is financially risky. He suggested, however, that "if you're sufficiently interested, you'll find...
John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, will moderate the discussion. Speakers will be Ben Shahn, painter and this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer; Francis H. Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum; Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music; and Gregory Tucker, pianist and composer...
With a proud and somewhat hurt air, a group of Texas oillionaires gathered last week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning...
...Museum President Francis Coates who spoke what was deep in the hearts of the Texans. Said Coates: "To quite a few of us who are still a little hot under the collar, this program may mean the time when certain well-known novelists who have partaken of Texas hospitality [e.g., Edna Ferber, author of Giant] and certain self-styled smart-chat writers for such magazines as Esquire and Holiday [e.g., Author Cleveland Amory] who have pointed out the crudities of certain Texans in tiresome, monotonous repetition, will remember to mention what Texans have done for institutions like this...
...examination period brings to light a basic inequality of status between two groups of students at Harvard. Any one of these days, near the hours of 9 A.M. or 2 P.M., an observer may see Harvard men on their ways to Memorial Hall, the Geographic Institute, the Fine Arts Museum, etc.--Radcliffe girls on their way to Longfellow Hall. Harvard men are faced by a bevy of proctors, whose function, besides that of passing out and collecting blue books, is to serve as watchdogs of student honor. The young ladies from Radcliffe are passing the same three hours with...