Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some exceedingly rare and interesting rubbings from brass monuments in mediaeval English churches have been put on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. They represent Knights in armor bishops, monks, and ladies. This collection was given the University by Mrs. George Fiske in memory of her husband, a member of the class...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
...regalia of dignified black, which will distinguish him from lesser folk. He gets it to set right on his shoulders, maneouvers the tassel till it does not dangle in his eye but caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted Yard. He is a Senior--he needs no button nor mustache to proclaim that fact now. He is a Senior--let the world look and admire...
...summary: SECONDS. ST. MARK'S. Townsend, r.w. l.w., Flagg W. Patterson, r.c. l.c., deRham Trainer, l.c. r.c., Armor Taylor, Reycroft, Devereux, l.w. r.w., Gaston Williams, c.p. c.p., Thacher Brown, p. p., Stillman Sagar, Stanton,. g. g., Stillman...
...only two hundred and one had shown an ability to read either French or German by Christmas of the next year" seems to us very remarkable. Almost 50 per cent. have failed. That these oral examinations easily penetrate, so to speak, the weak points in the Freshman academic armor, is all too evident. This deplorable record is the best proof of the wisdom in the provision of such tests. And that seems to be little doubt that, now that this noticeable deficiency either in the preparatory school training or in the elementary Modern Language courses has been detected, the proper...