The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-07-26

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Bruce was born in Washington in
1879 went to the public schools in the
capital city, thence going to Phillips
Exeter Hall, where he fitted for Har.
Vard'entering in 1898. His ability as
speaker in the class debating club
quickly attracted attention. and he
was soon on his class team in the de.
pate against the sophomores.
In the fall of 1899 he cme out As a
candidate for the Princeton debate,
and was chosen for the honor. ac.
quitting himself with great credit.
In his freshman year he won the Bar.
ton Coubertin medal, offered to stimu.
late interest in the problems Of French
politics. He also won the Pasteur
medal for the best speech in the inter-
state debate.
His wide reading, great powers of
concentration and native powers OF
mind brought him to victory through
many exhausting trial debates. He
has also much literary talent, as was
shown by stories written by him fos
the college papers. He is extremely
modest and is fond of hard work. As
ne was not a man of means, he was
awarded one of the Price Greenleaf
scholarships.
Bruce's method of oratory is mar.
vellous in its strength and beauty.
Concluding one his speeches he said:
There, upon the southern planta-
ton. is an American in black, bound
hand and foot by ignorance and un-
thrift; slave to the untutored impulse
of the present, he is also slave to the
accumulated impulses of his past;
being slave to an unillumined self. he
is slave to a merciless master.
For slavery Of this type, the
emancipation proclamation is written
In one word upon the university
(Harvard) seal; it was spoken cen.
turieG ago by the Teacher of Teachers,
And ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you Free"
In another thought equally honor
able field Henry o. Tanner. of Phila-
delphia. has won high place. This
yea and for several preceding years
hfs pictures have been hung in the
Paris Salon.
His The Raising of Lazarus" ex.
hibited in 1897, obtained for him the
highest award France can give to an
artist. 1t was purchased by the gov.
ernmentfor the Luxembourg gallery,
which distinction carried with it 6
gold medal and the privilege to the ar
tist Of having his pictures exhibited
every year in the Salon without sub
mitting them to the Hanging Com
mittee.
Mr.. Tanners picture of this year is
entieled La Musique," and 1t has
met with much praise from most
eminent critics.
The negro artist studied his art in
Paris under Constant, Tony Robert
Fleury and Bouguereau, beginning
his studies at the Philadelphia Acad-
emy of Fine Arts, where his clever
work and the fact that he was badly
handicapped by the color line there,
brought him the sympathy and pc
cuniary aid of Robert C. Ogden. Be
fore he left the academy he was an
acknowledged master of his art.
Mr.. Tanner is forty-three years old
and is the son OF Bishop BENJAMIN
Tucker Tanner, of the African
Methodist church. of Philadelphia
After teaching and working in this
country for several years, Tanner
decided to take up his residence in
Paris, where there is little ostracism
on account of color.
Under Constant, the master, he
rapidly developed his art, and was
soon a contributor TO the Salon. hit
first success coming with his Dan
iel in the Lions Den," for which he
received honorable mention, and
which later attracted much attention
in this country. Then he won the
gold medal. and took a foremost place
in the art world.
Although Mr.. Tanner paints reli'
gious subjects from preference ne
has been successful in genre, por'
traiture and decoration. As a mem
her of the American Academy OF Arts
in Paris he was selected to decorate
the interior OF the society building
and was awarded a special prize Tor
the excellence of his work.
A critic has said that perhaps no
modern painter more resembles Rem
brandt in style than Mr.. Tanner. The
dominant notes Of his work are feel
ing. sincerity and dignity"
In still another field. one in which
the best brawn and brain OF the uni
vers,tles strive for superiority
,apro has won a distinctive place
william c. Matthews. a negro fresh
man AT Harvard. is the most-talked
~ man among the crimson students
evervvhere at present The little
negro nv scoring a run in the nintf
inning OF the Harvard-Yale game a