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Professor Pope's lecture yesterday was a continuation and expansion of the introductory one of Professor Sachs, in which was outlined the general art history of the nineteenth century, an age marked by a battle of opposing traditions." These two discussions were given in connection with the French exhibitions now on display at the Fogg and at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. They are of particular significance because of the general ignorance and vagueness, which has clouded this period in art. Professor Pope's introductory article in the forthcoming catalogue of the Fogg exhibition to some...
...present discerning biographer, "shares with Walt Whitman the distinction of being the greatest imaginative writer that America has produced; his epic, Moby Dick, is one of the supreme poetic monuments of the English language; and in depth of experience and religious insight there is scarcely any one in the nineteenth century, with the exception of Dostoyevsky, who can be placed beside...
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 Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.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...
...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...