Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club gave an excellent concert before the Boston Art Club Saturday evening, which was thoroughly appreciated by their audience. The programme was as follows: 1. Amontillado Sherry (Wister Reagh). 2. Solo, by Mr. Lilienthal. 3. Serenade (Marschner). 4. College songs. 5. Kommt ein Vogel. 6. Solo, by McCagg. 7. College songs. Fourteen college songs were rendered, and these seemed especially enjoyed...
...Art. VIII. ???1. The association shall at its annual meeting appoint 20 umpires. The secretary shall obtain the addresses in full of each umpire and publish the list in Spalding's Base-Ball Guide. ???2. The visiting club, not less than seven days before each game shall submit to the home club the names of seven umpires, none of whom shall live in the city of the visiting club or be an alumnus or undergraduate of either college. The home club shall produce one of the seven umpires on the ground in season for the game; in case...
...surely, else they should not come here to spend three or four of the most valuable years of their lives. For some men there need be no struggle to decide what profession to select; they are born with a genius for some specially, whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted to the study...
...result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin...
...Ruskin, as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford, declines to live in the rooms offered him in Corpus Christi College. He says he cannot spend the autumn of his days "in a city of brick lodging houses and scraped schools," and will accordingly take up his abode, for a time at least at Cumnor...