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Dates: during 1873-1873
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BELOW is a specimen of orthography and geography at a recent examination for admission to Bowdoin College. The written papers on Geography contained the following: "Nare ganset," "Pernobscot," "Florady," "Mississuri," "Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

All who are dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Durer's engraving of St. Jerome is surprisingly well reproduced, and does very great credit to the publisher's experts. The clearness of the impression is amazing. The table at which St. Jerome is reading recalls some of Eastlake's remarks about the absurdity of those in use at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

A word ought to be said about each of this issue, but my space will only allow me to mention Marc Antonio's exquisitely graceful Cleopatra. We have almost Raphael himself here, for Marc Antonio was thoroughly imbued with his spirit, and worked under his eye. The superiority of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Mr. Higginson says that this scholarship will produce emulation between the high scholars or the colleges similar to that between the boat-crews at the Regatta; the Nation thinks this emulation would be a feature disastrous to the good effects of the system, and seems to entertain a very poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION, AND INTERCOLLEGIATE SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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