Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard men will find the most interesting feature of the December Cosmopolitan the article by Lilian Whiting on "Literary Boston." Literary Boston, according to Miss Whiting, comprises Cambridge as well, and therefore includes many of our Harvard celebrities. A very good portrait of Dr. A. P. Peabody is one of the illustrations to the article. Colonel Higginson, Horace E. Scudder, Professor Torsford, Professor Barrett Wandell, Oscar Fay Adams are among the Cambridge men mentioned...
...October number of the Century contains the conclusion of the Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, which for several months has been a feature of the magazine. The frontispiece, a portrait of the veteran actor, goes with the article. Edward Eggleston turns from tales of Hoosier schoolmasters and of Yankee life to describe "Out of the Ways in High Savoy...
...granting to Prof. Adams S. Hill of leave of absence for the academic year 1890-91; the reduction of the rent of No. 1 Foxcroft House to $150 a year; the granting of leave of absence to Librarian Winsor for the academic year 1890-91; the acceptance of a portrait of Senator George Francis Hoar to be hung in the dining-room in Memorial Hall...
...which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming sketch of the Musee des Archives, with many excellent reproductions of old paintings and prints. The serials...
Professor Bocher has recently presented a portrait of Madame de Sevigne to the library; and a number of photographs have been given by Professor Davis...