Word: overly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Some of the Durers are late additions to the collection; and it certainly is far richer now than when it lacked the brilliant impression of the print variously called "The Great Fortune," "Nemesis," "Temperance in the Clouds," etc. This print gives a winged female figure in the clouds above a...
These remarks might be continued indefinitely, but as they are, they will fully accomplish their purpose if they lead many to look at these engravings who before did not know that they were on exhibition. This exhibition, I learn, takes the place of the former practice of opening the collection...
We agree with the writer in pronouncing his proposed system feasible, and admit that it need not be attended with any but a trifling expense to competitors, if, as he asserts, philanthropists will be so ready to aid it with their thousands; but as to the advantages which would result...
Nov. 21. - Ho for Cuba! We write a letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch...
Once upon a time the bright thought came into the heads of the assessors in Amherst, that there were plenty of young men in college there who were twenty-one or over, and if they could only get these to pay a poll-tax, it would be so much extra...