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This was immediately founded, with Professor Norton as President, and has ever since remained one of the important organizations for the prosecution of research in archaeology and the fine arts. Largely through the Institute the schools for American students in Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, Bagdad, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, were founded. The Journal of the Institute is one of the leading archaeological periodicals, and it has been active in the organization of expeditions, either alone or in collaboration with one of the foreign schools...
Professor Norton's interest in the organization was unflagging to the time of his death, and this is the reason that the Boston Society of the Institute wishes to contribute something to the centenary celebration. It seems especially appropriate that the lecture should deal with the American School at Athens, since this was the first of the foreign schools to be established. Indeed, many of Professor Norton's friends believe that he organized the Institute primarily for the purpose of establishing the School at Athens...
...tributes which during this week will have been paid to the memory of Charles Eliot Norton none would have been more welcome to the man himself than that tribute which is actively present but rarely noticed: the change in the undergraduate's attitude toward the fine arts and college courses in art. In 1873 when Mr. Norton was appointed a "Lecturer on the History of the Fine Arts as connected with Literature," the University, as in the case of most other American universities, made little organized effort to teach either practice in or appreciation of art. That year marked...
...taking his aesthetics in a mood which is not merely that of a dilettante. His interest in the Fine Arts rises not from any artificial or forced impetus but from his own desire to investigate the field. And it is this tendency which would have delighted Charles Eliot Norton--for this is the manner with which he himself approached the subject. He loved the Fine Arts and anyone who shared that love was to him a kindred spirit. Through his own enthusiasm he led others to a like point of view...
...undergraduate of today must needs rely on his elders for the personal praises and eulogies which are Professor Norton's due. It is to the older men, the men who were so fortunate as to be either his younger colleagues or his students that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker...