Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention to a number of changes to be made in the School. Earlier in the year the appointment of Professor Jean Jacques Haffner as Professor of Architectural Design had been announced. Professor Haffner, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and holder of the much coveted Prix de Rome, commenced to teach here last January. He will take charge of the courses in design and will bring to Harvard the instruction, criticism, and inspiration that our students in the past have so often had to seek abroad. Professor Humphreys; himself a fellow student with Professor Haffner in Paris, will...
...profession, judges the drawings and determines the grades. The evening class for draughtsmen in the Boston Architectural Club also joins in these combined problems. Professor Ferran, recently appointed to the Institute staff, is also a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a winner of the Prix de Rome. He is also a close personal friend of Professor Haffner. The arrangement of joint problems will give Boston something of the advantage which the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has so long enjoyed, that of rival ateliers in the same locality, working on the same problems, and with the great advantage...
...regarded as the new alignment of the Powers. France, England, and Italy are all nations firmly founded upon the fundamental security of private property. Behind all of them stands the tremendous shadow of Roman civilization. Russia, and to a certain extent Germany, never came under the sway of Rome and never became so wholly saturated with the traditions of private property. Napoleon's famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar", is being vindicated. Russian civilization, at least its representatives in the saddle today show all the characteristics of the wandering, nomadic tribes of the Steppes. Until...
Dean Edgell graduated from the University in 1909 and has spent most of his time since then teaching fine arts at the University. From 1910 to 1912 he was fellow in Renaissance studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He took the degree of Ph.D. at the University in 1913, became assistant professor in 1914, and has just been made an associate professor...
...spent a year teaching the history of Italian art as annual professor at the Classical School in Rome, which meanwhile had been merged with the American Academy. Dean Edgell has given courses at Harvard on the history of mediaeval, Renaissance, and modern art, and recently lectured at the Lowell Institute on the painters of Siena. He is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America...