Word: parthenon
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...first of a series of conferences to be held in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday and Friday afternoons during the next few weeks will take place tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock. At that time Professor G. H. Chase '96 will speak on "The Parthenon and Its Later History." Professor Chase will also be the lecturer on February 18 and 25, when he will take up "The Sculptures of the Parthenon" and "Praxiteles...
...Greek drama. Mr. Sessions, however, takes it for granted that too much of Mr. Barker's productions is "emotionally rather than archaically correct." No doubt the costumes of the barbarians were fantastic to the point of humor; but why the caviling at the temple? The temple was not a Parthenon, certainly; it was of the Minoan stage of culture, and as such it was quite correct...
...observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek excellence is natural, and to learn, if only from the living instance before...
...used in the performance, were received on Saturday. There are two chariots, one for Agamemnon and one for Cassandra. They were made especially for this play after suggestions by Professor C. B. Gulick '90 and Dr. G. H. Chase '96, who used for models the chariots on the Parthenon frieze. Both are built on the same design save that one is bronze-colored, and the other is colored a robin's-egg blue. They are decorated with palmette designs in gold...
...Roger T. Atkinson '94, who died in November, 1902, while assistant surgeon in the United States navy. The collection consists of the following reproductions by Caproni: a bust of JuliusCaesar, the head of Hypnos, a fragment of the ancient bronze statue found in Perugia; a slab from the Parthenon frieze...