Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...usual forcible style, hits off the same weakness as follows: "A man swims further than any other man - professor; a man cuts corns and cures bunions for a living - professor; he waltzes three hours without resting - professor; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight...
...Historical Society also might follow this method of work; for, no matter how numerous the courses in that department, in almost every chapter of history there are plenty of questions and controversies that can profitably be discussed. If I knew whether the Art Club was formed for the encouragement and patronage of amateur artistic talent, or for the advancement of archaeological researches, I should know whether to recommend to it this method of work...
...game of foot-ball was recently played in Canada between the faculties of art and of medicine in Queen's College...
...place, Gordon square, W. C., in the neighborhood of those institutions. The degrees of the University of London are open to women. University College, London, has supported the action of the university by admitting women on the same footing as men to all the classes of its Faculties of Arts and Law and of Science, and to its libraries, thus throwing open to them a full training in these fields of study. The London School of Medicine for Women, near University College, although not connected with it, is the only institution in England that trains women for degrees in medicine...
...visitor who is "doing" Cambridge. During the past summer an interesting feature has been added to Memorial Hall. The lack of interest in this shown by the public makes it evident that few are aware of the presence in this place of a very valuable and beautiful work of art. We speak of the memorial window erected by members of the class of 1860, to the memory of their classmates who fell during the Rebellion, and executed by Mr. John Lafarge. The work must be considered one of the masterpieces of this artist, who has been foremost in the effort...