Word: began
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Blashfield said that during the period of the Renaissance from 1250 to 1500, Italy was continually a battle-field, yet through all this strife the artists flourished. Hardly ever have chisel and brush been busier; in the midst of war, beauty began to take its shape...
Monday afternoon Mr. Lathrop began two classes in gymnasium work, one class on the parallel bars at 4.15, and one in tumbling...
...members of the course found an especial interest in his remarks since M. Bourget's literary criticisms cover a large part of that period of French literature to which the course is devoted. As the class is at present making a study of Hugo, he began by referring...
...Royal W. Merrill '69, died on Saturday, aged forty-two. After graduation Mr. Merrill began newspaper work in Boston, where he became city editor of the Daily Advertiser. He went to Philadelphia in 1875, where he was an editorial writer for the Times, which was established in that year. When the New York Mail and Express was reorganized by Colonel Shepard he became its financial editor. Last July he was appointed to the same position on the New York Press...
Colonel Higginson began his lecture by a definition of what was characterized as the "Boston Style" before the rebellion, and showed how this had become florid, almost turgid, because of its origin and developement from the firm belief of the Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent...