Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years ago U. S. art students headed for Rome in a fever of esthetic excitement. "I went reeling and moaning thro' the streets!" said Henry James of his first visit. If art students reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation...
...Prix de Rome is the choicest plum for U. S. art students who are under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted...
...following modern authors: Dante, Cervanites, Chaucer, Milton, Moliere, and Goethe. A student who fails those examinations may take the corresponding examination in the fall of his Senior year. In May of Senior year each concentrator must take two exams of three hours each on the literatures of Greece and Rome; two or three hours each in the translation of Greek and Latin authors at sight; and one of three hours on the general field of Classical studies. Both because of this abundance and wide coverage of exams and because of the great possibilities of correlation with allied fields tutorial...
...students away from the Classics, it should be said that anyone with a normal ability to handle languages can certainly cope with one or if he is really interested, both the ancient languages. The splitting of fields such as the study of the history and literature of Greece or Rome, is encouraged by the Department...
...field can easily produce an inchoate mixture of material, but this department, guided by an interest in various approaches--social, intellectual, constitutional, etc., has made of them a study of civilization. Admission into the field is selective and restricted to fifty from each class. The special fields are Greece, Rome, Germany, France, England, America, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, and 19th century. Divisional exams strike almost at once; thus, in the spring of his Sophomore year, a concentrator takes a three-hour Bible and Shakspere; in the fall as a Junior he takes two thirty-minute orals...