Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised to find so many women given up to dress-reform and pre-Raphaelite poetry; it is generally supposed that in America there is so much to be done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till...
...instance; you write your plays as if there was no such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that she don't know...
...altogether made up of "contests" of some sort; inter-collegiate athletic contests, oratorical contests, racing, and all sorts of rivalries with other colleges, are his very existence. But it is well known that a novice always has the crudest tastes, and it takes long to acquire refinement and the art of extracting delicate pleasure from quiet sports. It is admittedly so with yachting and canoeing. But a canoe club of the right sort would be a glorious thing for old Harvard...
...York Truth says that there are one thousand women studying art in that city...
...twenty-sixth general exhibition of the Boston Art Club will open on Friday evening, April 28th, and continue until May 27th. It will contain only water colors, black-and-whites, etchings and sculpture...