Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of the winter athletic meetings comes off this afternoon. A large part of the programme is given to "the noble art of self-defence," an art, however, that does not seem to be appreciated by the audiences at our athletic meetings. For the last few years, at least, the audiences at the meetings seem to have desired the boxer to confine himself to self-defence and at most only to hit his opponent when he approached dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been...
...beauty. The pupils are always attired in the costliest robes that the school can procure, and each, in his luxurious dressing-room, has a servant to attend to his every need. Truly, if there be no "royal road to knowledge," there is still one to the summit of dramatic art open to our students...
...ideas of physical development, said Dr. Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change in the former ideas...
...Genius," says an English paper, apropos of the election of Ruskin to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, "Genius is not an over-common quality in the occupants of professional chairs...
...room. There are eighty-five Roman coins well arranged in a handsome ebony case. The dates range from 400 B. C. to 337 A. D., including specimens of the silver, gold and copper coin of the ancient Romans. The collection is excellent, as showing the progress of the Roman art of coinage, and though not as complete as could be desired is still very instructive. The coins are all well preserved. The most interesting coins in the collection are specimens of the as: The oldest is placed at the date 400 B. C. It weighs six ounces, is worth, intrinsically...