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These prints are fine examples of pure graver work on metal of a period when the more artificial methods of engraving had not come into vogue. They are the works of men who were themselves artists, and many of them are the original designs of the respective engravers. They are strong portraits, full of character, and are comparable in merit to the best portrait art of the Venetian and Flemish masters. Among the names of artists represented are: Drevet, Nauteuil, Duchange, Masson, and Morin...
...themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...
...price and the university is not a shop for bartering and trading. The university is not an angle, but a circle touching every part of the world with doors in it for the various schools of learning. It is imperative that there should be some place where the graver questions of life may be studied apart from the multitudinous throng of every-day studies, and for that purpose this church was built. Learning, when free, rises to worship, and study, when untrammeled, soars to communion with God, and for this worship the door is wide open. As soon...
...this may seem a point of but little importance, and indeed, it would be, did it not involve a graver question, and one, too, that threatens to involve us in serious complications. We are in receipt of advices from eminent counsel informing us that a summons bearing the imprint of a seal which fails to meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words...
...seems to us that in college athletics as in graver matters in life, the degree of excellence attained and the resulting benefit to the participants both depend largely on the stimulus afforded by wide opportunity for competition. We think it very undesirable to limit in any way, not entirely necessary, the scope of inter-collegiate contests in athletics, and, while approving of proper restrictions, earnestly deprecate the narrowing of the field which would result from the adoption of such a resolution by a comparatively small number of colleges. In consideration of the widely differing conditions of American colleges, absolute equality...