Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School proposes to add to the courses of instruction at the beginning of the next college year two new courses, which extend over a period of four years each, and are intended to give, not only a thorough education in their respective branches, but also a general education in other departments of the University...
...sixteenth century represents the climax of Italian art. During that period elegance, taste, and sensuousness in the highest degree were developed in the work of the Venetian painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought...
Gentile de Fabriano is an artist of great repute at this period, and his personality is strongly impressed upon Venetian art. His most distinguished pupil was Bellini. The two Bellinis, father and son, lived and worked in Padua, and were influenced strongly by its art. Yet they are the real founders of Venetian art. Color is still predominant; hardness of line and statuesqueness of form melt away before its influence. Bellini attracts on account of his honest and earnest painting of saints and madonnas. His characters are dignified and possessed of angelic qualities. Truth and elegance mark his style...
...Francis was born in the town of Assisi, in Umbria, in the year 1182, in that dark period called the "century of mud and blood." It was the time of Frederic Barbarossa and the second Crusade, when discord was rife between church and state, democracy and oligarchy. St. Francis believed in carrying the maxims of the gospel into the public as well as the private life of the people, and his life was a constant example of what he thought...
...importance of fellowships and scholarships to students in the Graduate School appears to be inadequately understood by friends of the University. These students are not youths, maintained by relatives and friends while acquiring the elements of a liberal education; they are men who have already gone through the ordinary period of a costly education, and they have in many cases, relinquished salaried positions in order to come to the school. Their motive in coming is not that they may gain entrance to a lucrative profession; they are already qualified to do good service in their chosen field, but they...