Word: ruskinism
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Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
John Philip Emerson '50 of Winthrop House received two awards of $100 each for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and for a translation into Latin of a passage from John Ruskin's "The Crown of Wild Olive...
...when Edward VII became king, and it was already quite the thing to be "painted by Sargent." He was a portly, generous gentleman, more at home with his fellow expatriate Henry James than with the eccentric Bohemians of the art world. He resisted the Pre-Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid and copy Velasquez...
Suffering from a lack of esoteric competitors in book collecting are the William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold prizes, and any admirer of Romantic Eccentrics who would render his thoughts into prose can clean up in the John Ruskin Prize derby...
...Ruskin died insane in 1900. Effie had died two years before, happy mother of eight children...