Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS. - Fall clubs take train at Union Station for Andover at 6.35 p.m. Special car back...
...much-coveted paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Romney were ranked with the works of third rate artists. Today no pictures are so popular as those of the old masters; and the highest price ever brought at Christian's was for a Sir Joshua. In landscape painting we look back from the present school to Corot and Daubigny, and from them to the Englishmen, Bennington and Constable. These painters were the leaders in the great movement against Romanticism and Classicism...
...Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...
Yesterday Adams was tried as stroke of the first freshman crew, but Rice was put back after a short time. Seaver was put in Woodward's place at No 5. When the men finished rowing the order was: Stroke, Rice; 7, Ames; 6, Seaver; 5, Fuller; 4, Goodrich; 3, Butler; 2, Scull; bow, Adams...
...After each trick has been completed, the cards shall be turned face downward, but any player may look back to the last trick which has been turned down...