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Word: metallism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statues in Rome, Naples and Florence portraits from life? Art may sometimes fail to represent truly even those great men whose portraits and descriptions we have. Wendell Phillips warned his descendants not to be beguiled by Boston statues. If John Winthrop could come back and see the mass of metal representing himself on Scollay Square, what would he think? Remember however, that the ideal can never transcend the real. As far as man's high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. It shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Unveiling of the Harvard Statue. | 10/16/1884 | See Source »

...almost total loss of class fellowship is working a bad effect upon the majority of men who graduate. Unfortunately this is too true. In the smaller establishments of learning where the classes are limited to one hundred or less, the men amalgamate, so to speak, together, and the metal of their mind is in consequence such that when any important question comes up all are consulted and all take a proportional interest in the proceedings. In athletics and in study they make up in enthusiasm what they lack in material and numbers, and the result is only too evident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE CLIQUES. | 6/7/1884 | See Source »

...silver "potts" and had considerable silverware for their table, but "the undergraduates drank and ate out of pewter, an arrangement which saved breakage, and had the additional advantage that when the mugs and platters got bent out of all shape, the pewterer took them back as old metal, and a new stock of "dishes, sauces, and porringers" was laid in, the cost being ninepence-halfpenny a pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. | 12/4/1883 | See Source »

...changed for new ones (the Fellow who had the use of it contributing out of his private means as to get a larger or finer goblet) show how it is that old silverware is so hard to find nowadays. But they did not always drink out of the nobler metal, "a little jug and pott for the fellows in ye halle and parlour" being bought for 17d. in 1644. The undergraduates drank and ate out of pewter, an arrangement which saved breakage, and had the additional advantage that when the mugs and platters got bent out of all shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD OXFORD CUSTOMS. | 11/20/1883 | See Source »

...extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players to bend more easily than the ordinary stiff jacket will allow. In the front is a large letter "H" in crimson silk. Instead of metal eyelet protectors, which in a scrimmage often tear the fingers, the holes are worked in silk. The crimson-gray over which the jacket is worn is of heavy knitted material, as are also the hose, both being made on machinery imported by the firm. The knee-breeches are of strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/12/1883 | See Source »

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