Word: givees
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Scribner's, for January, T. W. Higginson proposes a plan for Inter-collegiate Scholarships. The necessary money being presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates...
...SOPH. (from a puddle). Give...
...weed, and those to whom the presence of its smoke is not offensive, exceed in number the remaining classes. It is even to be doubted if, on careful consideration, we should have wished the vote to be otherwise: it would certainly have been unpleasant for us to give visitors, if any had happened in, the impression in regard to our habits which would have naturally followed from finding us buried in clouds of tobacco-smoke. But why could there not be some room connected with the main reading-room in which the smoker could indulge his propensities, - a room which...
...give even the most meagre description of the collection would be a fruitless task; every one who is interested in art ought to examine it for himself and pass judgment upon it; still, we may mention here two gems of the collection. One is an engraving by Baccio Baldini, one of the very earliest Italian engravers, born in 1437. It is a unique impression of a circular silver plate about four inches in diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years...
...give every one that wishes an idea of the collection, and to cultivate the taste for art more generally, the Curator is now having a few of the principal engravings heliotyped (a process superior to photography, because an indestructible copy is produced), and, should the copies prove satisfactory, they will soon be for sale at Sever's. Students can have them at cost, - twenty-five cents to a dollar, we believe, - so it is within the power of any one to possess a Raphael or Rembrandt for a mere trifle. If this venture prove successful, other copies will follow...