Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...here to the student. Lowell, Longfellow, and many others have gone off into the woods or fields, and found there an avocation in the study of nature. Then Sunday is a day when one can read with pleasure and profit the history of the Christian church, or, if not fond of literature, there are art and music. A student should employ his Sundays in physical refreshment, intellectual enlargement, and acquaintance with religion...
Proportion is the united relation of the several parts of a building. It is a refined sense of what looks well. Architects are altogether too fond of using complicated formulas in proportion, when simple rules are just as useful and all that is really necessary...
...Harvard Union for finally securing the promise of a lecture by Mr. Irving. Mr. Irving's decision will be looked upon with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about...
From his boyhood, Mr. Chaillu said, he had been fond of animals, and had then learned how to preserve them. He was eager to go into the wildest parts of the world, and when seventeen, set sail for Africa...
...Blashfield, of New York, commences tonight, in Boylstyn 7, a series of lectures on the decorative painting of the Renaissance and its lesson for the present time. There will be five lectures in all, three of them coming on successive evenings of this week. Students who are especially fond of the fine arts will find here a chance to spend a delightful evening in company with a man who is a recognized authority on the subjects which he treats. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings the calendar does not offer so many events and more men will feel at liberty...