Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This evening at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, Mr. Robert S. Peabody, of the firm of Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, will give the third in the course of lectures on Fine Arts. The subject of the lecture will be "The Country House." Many stereopticon illustrations will be given. The lecture will be open to the public...
...Cummings, who will lecture this evening, is President of the Boston Society of Architects, as well as an architect and scholar. Mr. Edward Robinson is the Curator of Classical Antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. R. S. Peabody is a member of the well-known firm of Peabody and Stearns, architects of Boston, and is also a member of the Board of Overseers. Professor Warren is at the head of the new Department of Architecture in this University. Thus it may be seen that all of the gentlemen who are to give these lectures are experts...
...race men ran on the track yesterday. It is extremely unfortunate that but three days can be given to work on the track before going to New York. The tram races will be run on a dirt track, and the change from the board track, which gives a perfectly firm and solid footing, to the comparatively soft and yielding dirt track is so great that it is very hard for the men to get used to it sufficiently to run in their best form. In this particular the Harvard entries will be at a disadvantage...
...father's death he was obliged to leave college. He taught school and engaged in various other occupations, but finally settled upon the law as his profession. He studied law under the firm of Brown and Alger, in Boston, but gave up his studies in 1863 to accept a position in the Commissary Department at Newburn, N. C. While there he was seized with malarial fever, and returned to Lowell. He was admitted...
...experiences of course were unconscious preparation for the joint debate with Douglas in 1858, with which Lincoln's hour may be said to have struck. Yet it was not till after the Mason and Slidel affair that the country began to discover itself in the bands of a wise, firm and gentle ruler. The successes of Grant's armies in 1864 fully established Lincoln with the world. It has been said with truth that at the time of his death he was the most absolute ruler in christendom. He had ever been very near the hearts of those whom...