Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choose a New York painter, Wm. M. Chase, to make a likeness of Ex-President Hayes for Memorial Hall, and another, J. W. Alexander, to give the likeness of Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Medical School. Both portraits are subjected to violent criticism in a number of papers. The Journal thinks the Holmes portrait a judgment on the committee that could not find a better painter nearer home; and the Gazette is even more wrathful. "The muddiness, the ugliness, and the fantastic charlatanism of the picture," it cries, "leave the spectator in doubt whether to be more exasperated...
...discussion of the higher education of women has been a prominent feature in the New York papers of late, and an exhaustive article appears in the Woman's Journal on the subject, of which the following is a brief summary: The article says that in Belgium the question of admitting women to the universities was brought up in 1875, but not until 1881 was the plan adopted at Brussels and Liege. At present there are women studying at both these places. France not only allows women to attend the lectures at most of her colleges, but graduates are permitted...
Among the past members of the Pierian Sodality, since noted in musical circles, are John S. Dwight, formerly editor of Dwights' Journal of Music; Mr. Apthrop, the well-known musical writer; George L. Osgood, who was conductor of the society; Frank D. Millet, whose fame now rests on his skill with the brush, while in college he won fame by his skilful handling of the drum-sticks; Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and Mr. E. H. Hastings, now manager of the Bijou Theatre, who played what in the society is familiarly called the "bull fiddle." The oldest living member...
...communication in yesterday's Boston Journal combats Dr. Sargent's statement that walking, of itself, is of no value as an exercise, but that a spirited walk is one of the finest of all physical exercises. Also that gymnasium exercises are of the "greatest account...
Says the Boston Journal, in its Current Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a species of almsgiving, but the majority seem to take a wider view, believing that as aid to education has become necessary in the common schools, it does not injure the ministry or other professions to extend that aid by college scholarships and private assistance...