Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cole, now sixty-four years old, has spent his entire life on the art of wood-engraving. Now the once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has dwindled to but two: Mr. Cole and Henry Wolf. The names of the other craftsmen, famous throughout the land in their time: Kingsley, King, Church, and Kruel, are forgotten by the present generation...
Timothy Cole was the master of the art. He was born in London in 1852, but emigrated to the United States when five years old with his father. Burned out in the Chicago fire, he returned to New York penniless. He had been apprenticed to his trade at sixteen and in New York he had little difficulty in finding work with different periodicals. Mr. Cole's connection with the Century Magazine which he has never completely severed, began in 1875 when the late Alexander W. Drake called him into the service of the magazine, then called Scribner's Monthly...
...Cole went to Europe to engrave the Old Masters, finishing the first Italian series in 1892. He followed this success with series on Dutch and Flemish paintings, and later, English, Spanish, and French. He is now engazed on Old Masters in American public and private galleries...
Plans are being drawn up for the decoration of the Yard in the spaces that face the Library. Professor Hubbard of the department of landscape architecture has formulated a scheme whereby the vacant places about the Library will be immediately planted so as to replace the old trees as they decline. The new uses and approaches which the Library will cause in the quadrangle has warranted this planting plan, which will be backed by Harvard graduates. The class of 1908 has started the movement by voting to present the College with another elm which will be located near University Hall...
...obtained from the architect, Mr. Kellogg, a plan for the proposed Union swimming pool which would answer the objections raised regarding moisture and lack of sunlight. The drawing, a cut of which appears in another column, shows, moreover, a decided improvement in the appearance of the Union. The old bandstand, the purpose of which even the oldest living graduate cannot divine, would be replaced by a solid porch over the pool; and this might be equipped with awnings for reading and lounging in good weather. As regards the "Union problem," the fact that at Yale about six hundred...