Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assistance is given R. L. Hawkins '03. Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. F. S. Cawley '10. Assistant Professor of German, receives a grant for the publication of an Icelandic Saga: and Walter Silz '17, also Assistant Professor of German, is aided in the publication of work on the German Romanticists...
Last Thursday the Fogg Museum opened an exhibition of French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is of significance not only for Harvard but for all followers of art in the neighborhood. Its importance lies in the fact that approximately one hundred paintings and one hundred and twenty-five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir...
...post-impressionists, the present day tendencies are represented by the work of Matisse, Picasso, Gromaire, Villon, and Braque. The exhibition is the largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary...
...fact that there are, in various localities of eastern Europe, isolated racial islands embedded in the larger national blocks it was inevitable that even before the war there should have been a minorities question, of which the acute phase developed from the growing national consciousness of the nineteenth century. Effects had been made to meet the problem prior to 1918, and in several of the peace treaties of the past century, notably in those which established the independence of several Balkan states, provision had been made for the fair treatment of these minorities. The difficulties...
Among the volumes being shown, all of which were published in the early years of the nineteenth century, are "Annals of Sporting" by Caleb Quizem, and "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen...