Word: boston
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...been highly successful, the last one particularly so. The natural faults are perhaps noticeable in a certain tameness of subjects and some startling effects in color, especially in landscapes, where an extreme verdure is depicted, not warranted by the droughts of recent summers. It is an encouraging fact that Boston - by reputation, at least, the most cultivated of American cities - should be forward in matters such as these, and it is remarked by those conversant with the facts that her artists are showing abilities of the highest order...
Life in Santo Domingo. By a SETTLER. Boston: A. Williams...
Statistics and Prayer. Culture and Religion. Two Sermons. By L. G. MYLNE, M. A., Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. Boston: A. Williams and Company...
...indebted to the Rev. Mr. Grafton, of the Church of the Advent, Boston, for this pamphlet. Although sermons do not form as large a part of college reading as might be desired, still the character of the two mentioned above may gain for them something of the attention which is usually bestowed upon literature of a lighter sort. The first is an able refutation of that unscientific theory - as it seems to many - advocated by Tyndall, which seeks to estimate the value of prayer by a test applicable only to human science, and which implies something very like omniscience...
...tournament, coming to a close on the day of the Regatta, will furnish another attraction for Springfield that week, while the large number that will attend insures all the clubs against pecuniary loss. Though the Freshman Nine is, as yet, far from organized, they played a game with the Boston Juniors on Fast day and showed much individual good play. The defeat on that occasion may perhaps be excused when we consider Captain Perry's accident, and the fact that the composition of the Nine on that occasion was more the result of chance than selection. But energy in base...