Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Clipper has a good portrait of Mr. Baker, '86, on its first page...
...fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the oldest school on the continent. The Latin School is one year older than Harvard, and is the staunchest adherent to it among the preparatory schools. The performance of the evening was:- Prayer, Rev. J. F. Clarke, D. D.; Music; Presentation of Portrait of Mr. Epes Jargent Dixwell; Ode, Carmen Seculare, written by Mr. Dixwell; Poem, Mr. Robert Grant; Music; Oration, Rev. Phillips Brooks...
Previous to the oration the Latin School Association was presented through Dr. Reynolds with a full length portrait of Mr. Dixwell, the president of the association...
...Slowly the note-book is placed open on the table, a pencil is drawn out, and work is begun. I watch my friend closely; he works slowly, but deliberately, and soon, raising myself a little, I see, not a page of carefully written notes, but a wonderfully life-like portrait of the "man in the box," mouth open and hand raised. It is indeed a wonderful picture! In it I read pages; it not only presents the lecturer himself, but adds as well all the magnetic power of the lecturer. Herein is a great advantage, for Snodkins...
...various series, yet much the larger number of "Bohn's" translations are comparatively worthless; and it is astonishing that readers with any literary training themselves can fail to see this-to feel it, even when they do not know the originals; just as one can tell whether a portrait is a likeness or not without seeing the person...