Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useable idea has emanated from New England," he said. And added, "Now either New England must regain its former leadership in the American educational field, or it must become an excrescence." Besides displaying a complete lack of understanding of the institutions originated in the administration of President Lowell, the visitor from the West appeared worried about the fact that Harvard's former prestige as one of the country's foremost educational leaders was threatened since many of her institutions were unique or unable to be used elsewhere...
Lithographs by Charlet and his pupil Raffet, echoed by wood-engravings of these masters, show the Napoleonic Legend. The comparison is instructive; the visitor directing his glance from a page of Nodier's "Portes de Fer" to a lithograph of the Napoleonic army is readily convinced of the small interest the Romantic artist took in the means of art. Much more important was the final effect...
...Souvenir de Saint-Pelagic," the prison where Daumier was confined for his political caricatures. This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities and the characteristics of the two leading journalistic artists; the general point of view of the period and the specific vision of the artist...
...Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose in the Church as Vatican Librarian, Apostolic Visitor to Poland, Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal and Pope. And Don Bosco, whom he called "a man as great as the world," became a candidate for sainthood. His cause was well advanced by the time Pius XI donned the white soutane in 1922. The Pope exhibited elaborate impartiality in the case...
...Comptroller has had his gentler side. The visitor to his office was sometimes startled to hear a soft chuckle break the icy atmosphere of his little realm. The secretaries who have felt his disapproval would be surprised at the solicitude beneath the unbending surface. Yet few associates would deny the truth of the prophecy that when the Revolution comes, Mr. Endicott will be the first to die on the barricades...