Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
...Middle West. There are persons who think debating is in some mysterious way a corrupter of the youth who take part in it. Such persons take it too seriously. It is certainly an intellectual contest which sharpens the wits and whets interest in current questions, if not, as one critic has said it is not, a "training for public life...
...Adverse criticism of the Musical Review has been voiced recently by such men as the musical critic of the New York Tribune and by Mr. Francis Rogers '91, chorister of the Harvard Club of New York City. Both express the opinion that as an authority on art the Musical Review has little value. The majority of articles are contributed by undergraduates, and the views supported are the product of minds inexperienced and without breadth. A student cannot have developed any real power of discernment in music; hence his opinion can have but little weight. Music is, according to the point...
...Osvald Siren, the distinguished Scandinavian critic and student of early Italian art, will deliver the eighth of his series of lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The title of the lecture will be "The Frescoes in Santa Chiara at Assisi and Other Works by the Same Artist. Taddeo Gaddi." These lectures are open to the public...
...Osvald Siren, the distinguished Scandinavian critic and student of early Italian art, will give the sixth of his series of twelve lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of today's lecture will be "The Frescoes in the Magdalen Chapel and the Nicolaus Chapel in the Lower Church, Assisi." These lectures are open to the public...