Arts
| Alumni | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astin, JohnJohn Astin | 1952† | Actor of The Addams Family and Batman fame | |
| Chapin, FrancisFrancis Chapin | 1921 | Artist known for his work in oil and watercolor; called "Dean of Chicago Painters" | |
| Cowan, FrankFrank Cowan | 1865 !Jefferson 1865† | Author, physician, newspaper publisher, and personal secretary to President Andrew Johnson; best known for constructing a hoax, claiming the discovery of the remains of an Icelandic Christian woman near the Potomac River, proving that America had been "discovered" five centuries before Christopher Columbus | |
| Dallis, Nicholas P.Nicholas P. Dallis | 1933 | Creator of the newspaper comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D.; won the 1933 Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Championship in the 165-pound weight class | |
| Foster, StephenStephen Foster | 1841 !Jefferson 1841† | Famed 19th-century songwriter of American folk classics "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "Old Folks at Home", among others; Foster attended Washington & Jefferson but never finished; sources conflict on whether he was expelled or left voluntarily | |
| Kurtz, Charles M.Charles M. Kurtz | 1876 | Art director of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 | |
| Schmucker, Samuel MosheimSamuel Mosheim Schmucker | 1840 !Washington 1840 | American historian and author |
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)