Word: arts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which looks towards the placing of this branch of study on a plane with others of the humanities. That a building dedicated to the memory of our soldiers, to be used as a place for public gatherings should be in part devoted to the training of men in the art of speaking properly seems perhaps very natural. The part that the human voice has played in this great war appears very striking at a moment's thought. The drama brought cheer and esprit to men in the camps and in the field. Public speech was largely the means by which...
...members of the University who attended one or more of the Harvard R. O. T. C. Camps during the period of war, the loan exhibition which opens tomorrow afternoon at the Fogg Art Museum will have a double appeal. In the first place the exhibition itself, comprised of valuable loans from many of the largest American art collections, has been carefully and tastefully selected to represent the whole history and scope of modern French art. Secondly the collection has been brought together in commemoration of the devoted services of those seven French officers who, assigned here as instructors, taught...
...Professor of French Literature at the University will open the exhibition this afternoon with a speech. To that charm of manner which used to make even a discussion of sand-bagged parapets attractive a year ago, Captain Morize now adds a very complete knowledge of the field of French art, and will know and feel whereof he speaks. As usual, we are confident that Captain Morize's talk will be well attended by undergraduates...
Most fortunate of all, however, for chose who love art is that at last a University publication actually dares establish a department of dramatic criticism and at the same time finds a real critics. Mr. Fletcher Smith, in the first number modestly concealed as J. F. S., not only loves real plays (not the t. b. m.'s diversions) and good, acting but knows them when he sees them. Evidently he has been well trained, has gone much to the play, read widely, and studied the work of real actors seriously essaying the same parts,--in short, he is laying...
...Warner has long been recognized as an archaeologist and Oriental student. In 1904 he went to Transcaspia as a member of the Pompelly-Carnegie Expedition. From that time on, he has traveled in the East as assistant curator of Oriental Art in the Boston Art Museum, field director of the Cleveland Museum, and director of the Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society...