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...tenth muse," Critic Andrew Lang called the spirit of forgery. She may be busier and more inventive than any of her nine sisters. Under her sway, the 19th century Frenchman Denis Vrain-Lucas fabricated more than 27,000 documents purportedly from the hands of Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes That Have Skewed History | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Speaking before a gathering of top University officials, Faculty members, and patrons of the Center, Pusey sketched the history of his efforts to obtain a home for the arts at Harvard, and said that "there never was a more generous and more understanding patron" than Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05, who donated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carpenter Speaks at VAC Dedication | 5/29/1963 | See Source »

Dean Jose Luis Sert, whose architectural firm realized Le Corbusier's plans, will comment on the building. Dean Ford will preside, and President Pusey will perform the dedication. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, whose gift made the Center possible, will speak briefly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey, Ford To Dedicate VAC Today | 5/27/1963 | See Source »

...Visual Arts Center, financed by a $1.5 million gift to the Program for Harvard College by Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05 and the late Mrs. Carpenter, of Medford, Ore., is the first Le Corbusier building in North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le Corbusier: A Sketch | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...Studio Arts" at the Center that would be able to offer courses in painting, sculpture, architectural drawing, and even acting. (This idea, incidentally, can be traced to the 1955 Brown Report on the Visual Arts which first planted the idea of building a Center, and which inspired Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05 and his late wife to give the money...

Author: By Cennino Cennini, | Title: Scholars and Painters | 2/10/1962 | See Source »

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