Life — January 11, 1906 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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“ While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XLVIL AT West Thiery-First Street, Naw Yous JAN. 11, 1908. No. 1211. OSTON is in the throes of an in- teresting conflict about how to man- age an Art Museum The Boston Art Mu- the » under consideration. It ) is about to build itself a seum is one new art temple in the ion known as the Back ens, and is taking very serious thought as to all the details of its pros- ctive home. These de- tails depend very much upen what sort of a mu- scum itis proposed to con- duct. It seems there « two kinds, or will be kinds as soon as the second kind has material- ized—the educational and the wsthetic. Our Metropolitan Museum in New York is of the educational kind. So is the British Museum, and divers others of the great museums of the world, That is the orthodox species. It rims to illustrate the history of art, and arranges its collections primarily for the benefit of students and inci- dentally for the benefit of visitors who love to look at beautiful objects. But the museum which conforms to that ideal of management which has been ‘epresents the convic- two. med sesthetic tion that the interests of the average visitor have been sacrificed to an ex- tent that is neither useful nor neces- sary to the supposed interests of the student. It while adhering to the Rooseveltian principle of a square aims, deal to all, to give the general visitor as good a run as possible for his time. To this end it proposes some measure of separation between those of its properties which edify students only and such as interest and delight the larger public. The latter objects, in- cluding primarily its best original pic- -LIFE- tures and pieces of statuary, i: would place and arrange to the best advan rooms, de- and to visitors The ob: restricted interest, and useful to stu- tage possible in red to give them a fit settir spacious increase the pleasure of the who come to look at them jects of a more those which are mainly dents 0} it would house, with at tention to economy in space, but still nd sias to bec with care, veniently accessible to persons who want to sce them Everybody knows that a large pro- rtion of the contents of most of our very best of to the aver- urt_ museums, even the them, are a profound bore telligent visitor, who seeks to refresh his soul for a little while by the contemplation of beautiful works. He must hope, if he lives in Boston that the cesthetic party in his museum party, and that the new museum will be a thing will beat the educational of more beauty and more joy to him than it could be if the orthodox ideal won out, As for people hereabouts who care for art museums, the sesthetic principle of management being a new develop- ment, they would like to have it tried on Boston and see how it works. WITH a vast mingling of waters. stich as not for a generation to likely to nama, all the existing public transit corporations of Manhattan Island have come we are witness at flowed together, Water! water! water! Floods of it. Watery bonds that late- ly were stocks; re-watered stocks that lately soaked ; watered stocks that it has never been found practicable to wring out: a disgusting inundation, A man does not have to be a Socialist to be irritated at the re- peated exhibitions of the profitableness of municipal in this town, There will be better ways Meanwhile, cannot the Transit. Company enforce smoking on the car were more enormous franchises in better days. Inundated its rule against tforms, and carrying lighted cigars in the And can it not run five- car trains on the Elevated all day long. few other evidences of and show a compunection ? HERE is much pith in the opinion lately expressed by President Eliot that intercollegiate football should be stepped for one year, There seems, he says, to be a well-nigh universal con- sent that the present game is intoler- . He thinks that a great improve- ment in the condition of public senti- ment. He finds it impossible to believe that the committees, coaches and um- ires who have ruined the game are to Le trusted with its reform and replace- His method would be to turn out the doctors and let the patient have a chance to get well. He says the fun- with the ment damental difficulty present game is the spirit in which it is played, and to get rid of that he thinks we must stop intercollegiate football for time, To that end he favors separate action by individual colleges HE prevalence of a disposition to send wedding gifts to the Presi- dent’s daughter is made manifest by a proposal emanating from Oregon for a ten-cent subscription in all the States to raise a fund for her, and in the re- solve of some of the anthracite miners to send her a carload of the best kind of coal, The last is a delightful idea but hardly practicable, because all that a small family could do with a carload of coal would be to sell it, and Miss Roosevelt could not sell the miners’ gift. The ten-cent subscription plan is not quite a practical one cither, how- ever affectionately intended. — The President deprecates it. We had bet- ter not give that young lady any ma- terial tokens of our regard on the com- ing occasion unless we are cousins, or better. to her (she has 6,000 cousins), or near friends of her folks. She will because her ar office, to have something laid Her father, too, is an Tf we all restrain our- selves, she will still have to build a bank to hold her acquirements. not want for anything. betrothed holds a $5.000-2 and is said away besides. office-holder. comicbooks.com