Word: homed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that blessed home...
...addition to its social characteristics, it holds an exhibition every month at which are exhibited chiefly home productions, but also valuable pictures in the possession of individuals. In this way a healthy emulation is excited, and works of merit brought to the notice of the public in a very attractive manner. It is hoped that this method of exhibition will do away with the custom of jockeying pictures, so common among picture-dealers, and so detrimental to the interests of the artist. The recent exhibitions of the club have been highly successful, the last one particularly so. The natural faults...
...Regarding the character of its sentiment, many different opinions are expressed. The chief fault, by no means an unusual one in such compositions, is the fact that the conversation is all carried on in a very stilted style. Two college men, one a Freshman, the other a Senior, ride home together from a party. Entirely unacquainted up to that evening, they indulge in the most gushing sentiment toward each other, as well as toward the belle of the evening, who, next to themselves, is the chief subject of conversation...
...enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry out the illusion. He has spied...
...when, at home, full oft I bore the pail with willing feet...