Word: viewing
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...received, as an addition to the Forbes Collection, a fine water-color drawing of the Simplon by Turner. This drawing is of Turner's best period, and is a characteristically imaginative rendering of the great Alpine pass under the effect of early morning light. The drawing is now on view in the gallery on the upper floor...
...elevation of the standard of secondary schools; and the determination of the governing boards of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to maintain the degree of Bachelor of Arts in its full significance as the degree representing a general liberal culture. He then goes on to say that in view of the improvement which has taken place in secondary schools, and the fact that the standard of daily work in Harvard College is but a moderate one, a diligent student, or one of unusual ability, can readily meet the present requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in three...
...Goethe's View of Antiquity...
...American Traits from the Point of View of a German," by Professor Hugo Munsterberg is a collection of five essays which have already been printed, the first three in the Atlantic Monthly and the other two in the International Monthly. Professor Munsterberg in these essays compares the American and the German people as one who knows them both, and tries to show his adopted countrymen what lessons they can learn from the institutions of the Old World. As he says in the preface to the book, the essays were not written to be read in Germany, and should...
...James Russell Lowell: A Biography," by Horace E. Scudder, is the latest and most complete of the biographies of Mr. Lowell. It is written with a just appreciation of his life from the various points of view of author, editor, professor and diplomatic ambassador. Recognizing the excellence of Professor Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," the author, as he says in his preface, has deemed it advisable "not so much to supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only...