Word: fined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURES. "Egypt, 11. The Early Dynastic Period (to Snefru)." Professor Reisner. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket. Tickets may be obtained free, on request, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, if application is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
Professor G. A. Reisner, assistant professor of Egyptology, will lecture on "Predynastic Egypt" in the lecture hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This will be the first of a series of three illustrated lectures by Professor Reisner on the work of the Harvard and Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition, of which he has had charge for the past eleven years. The dates and titles of the remaining lectures in this series are as follows: March 28, "The Early Dynastic Period"; March 31, "The Age of the Pyramids...
...Bess and Roughman seemed easily the best-presented persons in the play. Mr. Haussermann's swaggering was indeed "immense"; and the difficult transitions from boasting to cringing and back again he managed with a fine skill of reality. He played to the point of delight a part which demands very much versatility. Mr. Spelman's Bess Bridges quite exhausts praise. I do not remember seeing another man fill a woman's part so sufficiently. At times Bess was genuinely and girlishly charming, to the point of complete illusion; yet never over-feminine. She was most interesting, perhaps, in her masculine...
...Robert Herrick spoke of a former ideal of literary art which "withstood various assaults from the practical, who wished the Monthly to 'get more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence; but the balance of the number, one-half...
...shown by the fact that it contains all the essentials of a true sport; the best of healthy out-door exercise, the greatest enjoyment to the players during the entire season as well as during the contests, the tremendous interest of the spectators, all of whom can appreciate the fine points of this game. Forty thousand people attend an American football game. Of these, the students and perhaps half the others understand the science of the sport. What do the rest come for? One who sees a well-played soccer game for the first time can understand and appreciate...