Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constitute the only enjoyable part of the meeting. The wrestling is inevitably tedious if the men are well matched, and farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also they can do. They can insist that the wrestlers be given a hold before the patience of the audience is utterly exhausted. If the wrestling could be made short, sharp and decisive like the sparring, it would...
This evening is delivered a lecture in Sever on "Notoriety in Art" by Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford. It is gratifying to see that, at a time when so many other interests are forced upon our minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will...
...another page, in which the writer points to the need of establishing a school of Political Science at Washington. The matter is interesting not only to those who for themselves wish to get a practical knowledge of political and economic topics but for those who are anxious to see the civil service of our country bettered. It is likely that no civil service laws will be wholly effectual in getting good work out of our public officers, until these men are fully fitted for their duties by a course of training at some such school as that proposed. The government...
...reward for any stain that we cannot remove from cloth, or for any garment that is brought to our establishment and is not properly repaired, or for any misfit we make. We manufacture all kinds of athletic goods. Call and see the newly invented parcimento seat on our tights. Sole agent for Ollendoff's pants stretcher. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard...
...reward for any stain that we cannot remove from cloth, or for any garment that is brought to our establishment and is not properly repaired, or for any misfit we make. We manufacture all kinds of athletic goods. Call and see the newly invented parcimento seat on our tights. Sole agent for Ollendoff's pants stretcher. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard...