Word: fields
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...though unconvinced of the efficacy of the proposed plan, we are glad to see such a subject agitated and discussed, and to know that the enthusiasm and wide-awake spirit which Princeton has manifested of late is not confined to the ball-field and the in futuro river...
Then o'er the field our torn flag tossed...
...Nine takes this opportunity to thank the former members of the Nine (Messrs. Bush, Wells, and McKim) for their very valuable assistance on Saturday. It was a great pleasure to see them on the field again, and we only hope that this may be but the first of many similar occasions...
...allowed to figure the characters and incidents in his own mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping the imagination, or, what is worse, for the mere sake of advertising, is in most cases a miserable failure. I say in most cases, because a few novelists - Dickens, for example - have been so happy as to find artists...
...this the most successfully is the one who best answers the expectations of the public, and ought to be encouraged. As early as the fifteenth century typographical beauty was considered an object to be sought, and the family of Aldus has gained lasting renown by their success in this field. An Aldine copy of Lucius Fiorus (Venetiis, 1521) in my possession exhibits a distinctness of typography and general excellence of appearance that for those infant days of the art are quite commendable. Of this class of printers, to whom we might allow the name of artists, we may instance...