Word: fact
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heterogeneous character, - wood-cuts, engravings, heliotypes, albertypes, etc. all jumbled together. The book is also profusely crammed with advertisements, which the title-page does not state, - perhaps because it is perfectly evident, for a view of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s building occupies most of the page. In fact, Mr. King's ingenuity and audacity in the matter of advertisements are something to be admired. Not satisfied with the liberal amount of advertisements outside of the text, he begins with the title-page and strings them all along through the book. The engraving of one of the Fall-River...
...King announces himself on the title-page as a member of Harvard College; he would have done better to have kept that fact to himself. He evidently had some compunctions about proclaiming it in this public manner, for he puts it in brackets. As a matter of taste it would have been better to have left out this statement. It is entirely irrelevant, to say the least...
...very unsatisfactory, and we may add unprofitable, for the art student to be obliged to study the works of masters through the medium of photographs. No conception of color and only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating and training the taste of the men in college who are interested in art, he has copied, with a faithfulness which has won Mr. Ruskin's praise, the paintings, or characteristic portions of the paintings, of some of the greatest Italian masters. In these copies...
...views expressed in the letter upon the mid-year examinations which we print this week seem worthy of careful notice. The mere rumor that the examinations were to be crowded into a period much shorter than usual has created much excitement and called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work...
...Brunonian informs us of the formation of an Athletic Association, and rejoices over the fact. The faculty regard the matter with favor, and it is considered a striking proof of the "spirit of progression" at Brown...