Arts and Literature
- December 8 - Marc Mayer is appointed director of the National Gallery of Canada.
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“But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences themselves.—See,—he builds ... whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how they will magnify his name!
—One honest tear shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth them all.”
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