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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...permanent memorial to Frank Bolles will be a beautiful tribute to a beautiful spirit that worked among us like a right hand without the left hand's knowing its action...
...Smith's descriptions were most vivid and clear. What, said he, could be more picturesque than an old fence, every fibre of which has been whitened and softened by wind and rain until it shines like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...
...school consists of original study and research on the part of each student, and also of excavations and explorations which are carried on under the guidance of the director. Lectures are given on general topics connected with classical archaeology, and the collection of inscriptions, vases, reliefs, and the like to which the school has access, are made the subjects of special study. Some time is given each year to excavation. In the past few years excavations have been made at Icaria, Plataea, Eretria, Sicyon and Argos; and a number of interesting discoveries have been made. The site of Icaria...
...many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways, Shakespeare...
Dean Hodges is the successor of Bishop Lawrence, and like him will come into close relations with many of the students. It is for this reason that the St. Paul's society gives the reception. it is hoped that many of the students will take advantage of this opportunity to meet him, both for their own sakes and also to give him a pleasant welcome to Cambridge...