Word: classics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...anticipated, but, at present, the foundations of the building are practically completed and the brick work will be commenced next week. The museum, which will be as nearly fire-proof as possible, will be constructed of buff Indiana limestone and the style of architecture is an adaptation of the classic. It will be two stories in height and will have a front of 115 feet and a depth of about 114 feet. The building will be divided into two main sections; the front of the building, which will be subdivided into smaller rooms and the rear, which will...
...this kind of fastidiousness I think one may and should exercise in regard to books. Cum bonis ambula, said Cato speaking of men, and one may say of books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which is now, in the fool's paradise of novels and newspapers, obsolete...
...Correggio we find the consummation of the period. The beauty of the classic and religious motives appear to perfection in his paintings. His characters were sensuous but never sensual. Correggio was litte affected by the great movements of his time. He was one of the very greatest of the Renaissance painters, and it is a singular thing that he painted and died almost in obscurity...
Raphael is the representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
...Germanic Philology or Comparative Literature. In the minor subjects the requirements will include: for English, an outline knowledge of the history of the literature or of the history of the language, and a more detailed knowledge of some period of the literature; for German, a good knowledge of the classic period of modern German literature and ability to write in German a short theme on some subject connected with the works of German literature which the candidate has studied; for Germanic Philology, Gothic or Old High Geman or Icelandic; for Comparative Literature, an outline knowledge of mediaeval European Literature...