Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curator and some of the professors, the Warren Museum, and the dissecting room, or "dead-man's hall." Of the lecture rooms, two are of double height, and in them the seats for the students rise above the lecturer in almost perpendicular tiers. In one of them is the portrait of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, presented to the school by his friends, when he retired from the chair of anatomy a year ago. The laboratories are of little interest to the average man, but are the places where the students spend much of their time and with which they...
...best and most attractive pictures in the present exhibition at the American Art Galleries in New York. is a portrait of professor James Mills Pierce by Collins, a young Cambridge artist. The genial professor is represented as seated with a closed book in one hand...
...state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation...
...will of the late Thomas G. Appleton, '31, a classmate of Wendell Phillips, and a prominent literary gentleman of Boston, has been made public. Among the bequests are several to Harvard. A portrait of Samuel Appleton, and the testator's piece of statuary, "The Lion's Head," are left to the president and fellows of Harvard college ; and $5,000 for the astronomical observatory at Harvard college. In a remote contingency the sum of $100,000 will be divided among several institutions, one of which is Harvard. The whole estate is valued at several hundred thousand dollars, and Harvard...
...reading matter, but the rest of the editorial page is spoiled by a series of editorials on the name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page 5) is enough to spoil any paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds...