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During the past summer White won the Vermont State Championship at the Mt. Anthony Golf Club, Bennington, Vt., on August 19, by defeating P. H. Jennings of New York 5 up and 3 to play in a match of 36 holes. White also won a tournament at the Ekwanok Golf Club on September 9 and finished eighteenth in the open National Championship at the Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, last week...
...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...
Judge Jeremiah Smith, recently appointed professor in the Law School, is descended from one of the old New Hampshire families. His father, Jeremiah Smith, was born at Peterboro, N. H., and while yet in his "teens" was at the battle of Bennington under Stark. The elder Smith entered upon the practice of law at Peter borough, afterwards removed to Exeter and was appointed chief justice of New Hampshire, a position he held until 1815. Judge Smith was twice married, his second wife, Miss Hale of Dover, being the mother of the present Judge, who was born about...
...recent numbers in the variety and interest of its articles. The serials, "Passe Rose," by A. S. Hardy, and "The Tragic Muse," by Henry James, fully sustain the interest of their first chapters. American history occupies a large share of the number. John Fiske contributes a paper on "Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany," and Frank G. Cook, one on "Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows, and his wife, Isabel C. Barrows. The article consists of a number of reminiscences...
...Boston, Dec. 30th. The arboretum will be made a leading attraction of the new system of public parks. Boston has purchased Wood's Island, East Boston, over twenty acres in area, for a public park for $50,000. The plan contemplates a park-way one hundred feet wide from Bennington street to the park...