Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more of a disgrace to be dropped than it is honor to be on a crew, we must expect to see a good thing carried to excess; but the reform must come, not from the college government, but from that public which is, so to speak, the patron of the college...
...them in the way which his tastes and acquirements lead him to choose. In literature, in politics, in science, in art, he has wide fields open before him, and even if his talents will not permit him to be a professor, nor his means to be a liberal patron of that art for which he feels the greatest fondness, he may, by his conversation in friendly intercourse, diffuse the results of his study, and stimulate interest and activity in others, who could hardly be aroused in any other...
...widely known and conspicuous traits in the character of the late lamented Prince of Erie, was his inordinate passion for making a display. He builds an opera-house, and runs it at a great loss, for the sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public as a patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword...
...next in excellence of reproduction, the portrait from Van Dyck's Iconographia must be mentioned. It is wonderful that such success has been attained with an etching. Here we have what Van Dyck alone can give us, - the real nobleman. Durer's portrait of his old patron, Pirkheimer, is hardly less valuable than the foregoing...