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...historical account of Holland, the part the country played in sheltering and training the pilgrims who first settled in New England, and the assistance the nation afterwards rendered to the American colonies in the Revolution. Then passing to the physical characteristics of the country itself, Mr. Fowler described the Dutch windmills, the Dutch boats and bridges and canals, the people themselves and their characteristics and, lastly, the great dykes that alone save the country from the ocean. He spoke also of the stories of Philip II and William of Orange, the wars of Holland against France and Spain...
...Fowler, of Boston, will speak on "Great Little Holland," illustrating his lecture by one hundred stereopticon views. The landscape slides are from pictures taken by Mr. Fowler in the course of a bicycle tour through the country, and have been colored by Miss Katherine G. Breed. The reproductions of Dutch paintings were made by special artists in the galleries...
From 1901--P. E. Coyle, L. Hayward, C. F. Dutch, R. S. Taylor, S. Thomas, R. S. Hardy, A. H. Howard...
...pedantic antiquarianism of the school of David." The ideals and impulses of the Renaissance by the seventeenth century had lost hold on the artistic imagination in its creative faculty. English landscape painting was involved in mannerisms derived from the landscape backgrounds of the conventional historic figure painting. The Dutch landscape art, while free from these peculiarities and laboriously exact in portrayal of detail, was entirely unimaginative in its inattention to that most worthy of expression. During the early part of the nineteenth century, however, a new tendency appeared toward a more feeling expression of the various moods and aspects...
...Lawrence Lowell '77 has recently published an important book on "Colonial Civil Service" which contains a large amount of particularly timely information. After an introduction showing the necessity for a special civil service in tropical or Asiatic possessions, Mr. Lowell treats of the historical development of the English, Dutch and French colonial civil services in full detail, pointing out the merits and defects of the various systems. The best plan for the United States, according to Mr. Lowell, is to found a national colonial training college on the same general lines as West Point and Annapolis but specially modelled after...