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...Even if the light should be the same on another day, it is impossible to expect that the mood of a painter should be just the same. So he cannot see things in just the same way. To an expert a painting done on different days is a perfect almanac. So the artist must work quickly. His strokes must be accurate and he must know that they are right. Such little details as time of day, temperature, season of the year, and locality always are as plain in the work of a master as they would...
Torrence Parker, with mild sarcasm, rather cleverly defends the much-abused "Chirography of the Harvard Instructors in English;" but the remaining articles of the number will probably prove more interesting to most of the students. Best of them is "Mr. Thaddeus Almanac's Scientific Proposal," by L. W. Mott and L. How. The hero's unfortunate experiment with a phonograph in connection with a matrimonial proposal, is very entertaining. Somewhat less so, though still good, is C. G. Christian's "Ambition Lowly Laid." "On Beacon Hill," by A. C. Train is, as its author calls it, a sketch...
...change in the existing tariff is certain to be made. (a) by its enemies, the Democrats, Prohibitionists and Populists: party platforms in World Almanac (1893), pp. 79, 81, 84.- Elections of '92. (b) by its friends: the Republican platform: World Almanac (1893) p. 81: 6th annual report of U. S. Com. of Labor, pp. 132-262: N. Y. Times, Sept...
...Reform in our divorce laws is necessary. - (a) Divorces are increasing greatly: Tribune Almanac for 1893, 212-213; C. D. Wright, Report on Marriage and Divorce, 77-113. - Present lax system affects stability of American institutions: Journal of Social Science, No. 14, 155-163. - (1) Bad effect on individual. - (2) On family: New Englander. XLIII. 61. - (3) On nation at large: Princeton Review, IX. 92. - (c) State laws vary on every point: Lloyd, The Law of Divorce, ch. VI. - (1) Grounds for divorce. - (2) Legal proceedings. - (3) Subsequent status of parties: Forum...
Simon Newcomb, superintendant of the Nautical Almanac and professor of mathematics at John Hopkins, is to give a course of lectures on the relations of mathematics to political economy...