Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York, to deliver three lectures on Greek vase paintings. These lectures will be held on Thursday, the 23rd, Friday, the 24th of February, and Friday, the 2d of March, in Boylston Hall. The lectures will be copiously illustrated with the stereopticon, and promise to be of very great interest. The subject will be treated in a manner that will appeal very strongly to a cultivated audience, as the lecturer will treat of the Greek vase paintings in their relation to the Homeric poems and the later epics. The literary side and the artistic side of the subject will be treated...
...presidents, among whom are Washington and Lincoln. A series of reproductions of medals in honor of the kings of France is interesting. They extend from the siege of Pharamond 430 A. D. down to Napoleon II, who died in 1832. Besides those we have mentioned there are a great many series of medals both curious and interesting. The collection numbers in all some 350 or 450 medals, forming a remarkable running history of the first half of the nineteenth century...
...suffering in other ways from insufficient attention. This collection of paintings is valuable not only because it is composed of portraits of former benefactors of Harvard College, but because it numbers among its artists men like Copley and others of almost equal note. When it is considered how great the value of the collection really is, and how great an interest it will always have to students who come to Harvard, every means possible for preserving the paintings should be taken. We hope to see the authorities who have the care of these pictures in charge look into the matter...
...February 20th. Three hundred or more men are to be present as delegates from the different States, and the affair will be carried on as much like the national conventions as possible. College Hall will be decorated in a fitting manner, and the occasion will doubtless be one of great enthusiasm. The doorkeepers, pages, telegraph operators and presiding officers are to be chosen from the college at large. The names of four candidates-Blaine, Sherman, Hawley and Lincoln-will be brought before the convention...
...arrangement so that one of the pages or other attendants could be on hand to oversee the magazine department? If they merely have to manage the slips as on other days, I should think that there would be no difficulty in this, and such an arrangement would be a great convenience...