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These carved panels, these mantel-pieces and coats of arms at either end of the hall as well as the brass wreath in the floor yonder are gifts of various graduates, students, and friends. The bust of John Harvard is the work and the gift of the distinguished sculptor, Mr. Daniel C. French, and the bust of Washington together with the eagle and the staghorns we have from the hands of our great architect...
...model was begun in August, 1899, under the direction of G. C. Curtis, the sculptor. The work is remarkable for the accuracy of its details, which include some 250 miles of railroad, modelled to scale, 300 miles of stream; 200,000 trees, each separate; 26,000 blocks, correctly located according to maps; 2,750 miles of streets and 157,000 buildings...
...comedian is an artist whose art is undefinable. The art of the sculptor is in marble; the musician, in sounds; the painter, in the brush; but the art of the comedian is in nature, and as such, has no limitation. Many great writers, including Victor Hugo and Lamartine, speak in praise of this art. The great aim and ambition of the art of the comedian, is to create. The person of the artist's creation laughs, weeps, hopes and sighs with us, because he lives with us, as a friend and compatriot. It is not the author alone who creates...
...subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...
Horatio Greenough, 1825, Sculptor...