Word: arts
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...Each state has the constitutional right to prohibit the sale of any article which it considers harmful to the public: Cooley's Const. Limit. p. 741. - (a) The Constitution gives the states all powers not granted to Congress: Const.- Amend. Art. X. - (b) Police powers not granted to Congress. - (c) Amendment XIV does not affect the states' power, "for the protection of health, prevention of fraud, and the preservation of public morals": Powell vs. Penna. 127 U.S. 678; Kansas v. Ziebold...
...Shakspere there is much, even in the aesthetic criticism, that is now quite familiar; and yet the justification of the book appears not only in fresh and vivid restatements of well-known views, but in occasional entirely original discussions, with much fruitful suggestiveness concerning not only Shakspere, but literature, art, and life. Even when one violently disagrees with the author, one is almost sure to learn something; which is perhaps the highest tribute that can be paid to the professional teacher...
Thus it appears that out of fifty three men representing the highest attainments in the civic life, the literature, art, and science of Massachusetts, thirtyeight, or 72 per cent, were certainly college bred. Morton, the dentist, and Allen, the judge, must have had the equivalent of a college education in learning their profession. Where Bradford, Carver and Endicott were educated does not appear. Of the thirty-eight, Harvard claims twenty-five, viz., Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman, Emerson. Holmes, Lowell, Hunt, Channing, Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce...
...came and conquered as erstwhile Rubinstein did, and, indeed, suggested no character so much as a Rubinstein of the violin, - an artist with a great, sympathetic, sensitive soul, responsive to every variety of emotion, prompt and generous in its givings out, who makes one forget all about the art of violin playing in the simple enjoyment of the beautiful and impassioned proclamation which he makes...
LECTURES ON ENGLISH ART.Mr. Humphry Ward, of London, will give four evening lectures in the month of February on "English Art in the Eighteenth Century, with special reference to Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney...