Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pray, gentle soul, if thou art truly kind
...Give reasons for calling flirtation "the art of self-defence...
...practice. A man was known by the school that he had attended, and carried the example of that school into his actions in after life. The same is true of the universities that sprang up at the end of the Middle Ages, and of the various schools of art all over the continent of Europe. The reputation of one great teacher was sufficient to draw to Bologna or Padua students from the semi-barbarous Poland or the far-distant England. The genius of Titian made Venice the resort of his many admirers and pupils, in the same way that Michelangelo...
...hourly sheet will be gotten up in the highest style of art. Short words will never be used when long ones will suffice. The proof-reading will be as good as circumstances will permit. Extras will be issued whenever it becomes necessary to record the breaking of a window in the Yard, or the blowing off of a Sophomore's hat by the wind...
From a devotee to the decorative art...