Word: ruskins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have and could not pay for; consequently, they have helped to save life and suffering of somebody's dearest on earth, even if they were not of their own family or nation. They have enabled us to build buildings which we could not otherwise have had. Ruskin got Oxford men to build a road in their vacation. A Yale-Harvard-Princeton team hewed out a foundation for a large orphanage and so contributed thousands of dollars to the fund for protecting and giving a chance to "some of these little ones." Amherst men took a scientific expedition to Hudson...
...Cambridge Street, not far from Phillips Brooks House is the Fogg Art Museum, where are carefully selected exhibits of ancient and modern art. Works by Ruskin and Turner, Japanese panels, some rare Renaissance paintings, and an extensive collection of prints are some of the interesting exhibits to be seen here. The Museum is open to the public daily, except Sundays and holidays from...
...cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These facts disclose a truly lamentable condition; they mean that Ruskin's. "There is no wealth but life" is being discarded for the "Goddess of Getting...
Through the courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum of the University, the Architectural Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is enabled this week to offer to its students and to the public an unusual exhibition of architectural drawings and prints. The exhibits will include original drawings by Ruskin, Turner, Meryon, and others, as well as etchings and engravings by such well-known artists as Piranesi, Webster, and Cavaletto. Mr. Edward W. Forbes and Mr. Paul Sachs of the Fogg Museum have contributed drawings from their own private collections...