Word: ruskinism
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...boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women are usually adequate, adeptly trained, they are seldom impressive...
...Silverstein, Miss Bertha Alexander; W. J. Small, Miss June Small; Alfred Hauser, Miss Helen Bullard; A. P. J. Dessauer, Miss Frances Sterne; R. S. Sehwab, Miss Margaret Decker; A. Kranes, Miss Harriet Hertz; G. P. Morris Jr., Miss Ann Golden; A. O. Ludwig, Miss Senoret McDowell; Philip Ruskin, Miss Etta Feinberg...
...Boston Ruskin Club, which will held a meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin on February 9, has extended a special invitation to the faculty and students of the University to join them at this meeting. The leverend H. E. B. Speight, D.D., Minister of King's Chapel, Boston, who has often in the past conducted the Sunday morning service at Appleton Chapel, will give an address...
...other cases in the room are to be seen the manuscripts of various authors, in most cases the original draughts as sent in to the printer. Among the authors represented are Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Scott, Keats, Dickens, George Eliot, and Charles Reade. The manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems is on exhibition in a photographic facsimile of the original...