Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rooms are open daily from 9 until 5, and are well worth a visit, even to those unacquainted with English and American jurists. The engravings are exceedingly interesting merely as works of art...
Yesterday morning Professor Norton bade Fine Arts 3 a last farewell. The students, hurrying through the last moments of a college year, may not fully appreciate the extent of their loss, and few who do realize it feel able to express their sense of its greatness. It will doubtless be long before the work which Professor Norton has been doing, and the influence which he has been exerting, will be done and exerted again. No one man will ever fill the place in the esteem of the undergraduates which he has occupied. For during the years of his teaching...
Professor Percy Gardner, M. A. Litt. D., Lincoln and Newton Professor of Classical Archxology and Art in the University of Oxford, who gave three lectures on Greek Archxology in the Fogg Lecture Room during the first part of April, spoke last evening in Harvard 1, on the "Dates of Greek Coins." His lecture, which was illustrated with lantern slides, was necessarily detailed, but brought out the fact that coins are of inestimable value in illustrating and verifying history and in showing the customs and art of a people...
...recent acquisitions of the Fogg Art Museum consist of between five and six hundred photographs of English Mediaeval and Rennaisance Architecture. These are still in cases but will probably be put on exbibition soon. On Monday, the Museum received from Constantinople twenty seven photographs of the three Greek Sarcophagi found lately at Seidan. These photographs are to be had only through the medium of the Museum at Constantinople...
...Catholic Club, held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to postpone until next year the proposed lecture by Cardinal Gibbons. Dr. Brann of New York will lecture on an historical subject under the auspices of the club, on the evening of May 11 or 12, in the Fogg Art Museum. Dr. Brann is rector of St. Agnes Church of New York, and was for several years an editor of the Catholic World. The lecture will be open to the public...