Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...volume is also enriched by the most recent portrait of President Lowell, who gave a special sitting on May 12, and by the dedication to Mrs. Lowell, in which Mr. Bemis expresses the gratitude which the undergraduates feel for Mrs. Lowell for her endless acts of kindness and hospitality. Altogether the volume is an admirable record of the class and the University and undoubtedly will be in large demand by the Seniors...
...choir separated from the crossing by the rood-screen of Naumburg Cathedral, so that this important monument of the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic sculpture will have the same relative place in our building which the original has at Naumburg. The other Naumburg sculptures, the twelve remarkable portrait statues of princely founders, will be placed in the choir, also in accordance with their original positions. The further development of Gothic sculpture down to the 15th...
...Graduates' Magazine for June gives us a copy of Charles Hopkinson's portrait of Professor Palmer recently presented to the University and prints the happy words of appreciation spoken by Professor Royce at the dinner in honor of Professor Palmer. Due praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor...
...recent banquet held in the Trophy Room of the Union, an oil portrait of Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 was presented to the University. Last June when Professor Palmer had been a teacher at Harvard for 40 years, a committee of 27 of his former pupils of which Professor C. M. Backewell, of Yale, was chairman, decided to have the portrait painted as a tribute to him and a token of their deep appreciation of his work. The portrait, which was painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson '91, is now in the Trophy Room. It will be put on exhibition...
Professor Palmer's long service as teacher has certainly merited the recognition which has been accorded it by the recent presentation of his portrait to the University. It is eminently fitting that this gift should have come from his pupils. In the forty years during which Professor Palmer has been connected with the University, he has guided and inspirated thousands, of students. As a philosopher, he has won wide respect and admiration; as a teacher, he has endeared himself to ten generations of undergraduates...