Word: padua
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...Fogg Art Museum Conference. Professor Pope on "Giotto's Frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua." Fogg Art Museum...
...primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer on the history of architecture at Yale are also on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. One is a picture of St. Michael by Byzantine-Gothte Guariento, 1338-68, of Padua, and the other of the Madonna and child in a dark architectural framework by Gregorio Schiavone, 1440-1470, a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione. The latter picture has been shown recently in the exhibition of Italian Primitives at the Kleinberger Galleries, New York...
There are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum two primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer of architecture at Yale University. One of the pictures is a figure of St. Michael, by the Byzantine Gothic Guariento of Padua. The form is very similar to the figures of the angels of the Heavenly Host, by the same painter, in the Museum of Padua. The other picture is by a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione, Gregorio Schiavone; it was recently shown in the exhibition of Italian primitives at the Kleinberger galleries, New York. It represents a Madonna...
...books tell us of 20,00 students at mediaeval Paris, Oxford, Padua. Possibly the registration system wasn't as accurate as Columbia's. Last year she had 19,094 students, or more than 13,000, if the summer sessioners be counted out. The teaching staff has 959 members. The original faculty, the whole corps of instructors, in the good old Colony times and beginnings of King's College, was its first President, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and his undergraduates were eight. In our own time Columbia has grown gigantically. She is become a great national and cosmopolitan university...