Word: printings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Etchings by Meryon, Whistler, Haden and Zorn are now on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. Among the prints shown are many of the favorite works of these artists. They are very fine impressions of early states of the plates, showing the artists at their best. The twelve etchings by Meryon are of the old Paris of his day, depicting the poetry and picturesqueness of the city which have long since been destroyed. The etchings include "The Stryge", its title written in pencil by Meryon himself; "La Galorie de Notre Dame", with its reflected light, a presentation...
Etchings by Meryon, Zorn, Whistler, Raden and other nineteenth century artists are now on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum, to remain during the summer. Many of them are lent for this exhibition by Horatio G. Curtis of Boston of the class...
...literary periodicals are pale and bloodless things, and expressed the opinion that the Advocate suffered from not being edited and written for the sake of its readers. My contention was that the magazine was too often a collection of themes written for the composition courses and later embalmed in print...
Members of courses which require a considerable amount of outside reading, often experience great difficulty in obtaining the necessary books. In many cases the desired volumes are out of print or at least not readily obtained at the Cooperative store; in others, prices are so high as to be prohibitive. In desperation the student turns to the library, only to find that every copy of the book is out,--usually returnable on some date after the reading is due. Under such difficulties it is little wonder that he sometimes does his work by proxy or neglects it altogether...
...pleasure of conducting over Harvard a well known English author who, to my astonishment, told me that it was the first university of which he had ever been inside the walls. He was then in the heyday of prominence; but I notice already that he appears less often in print and his name is less currently on the lips. The unschooled mind is likely to lack staying power. It can be clever, brilliant, up like a rocket; but if it doesn't always come down like a stick it is likely, still like a rocket, to have its stars...