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...late Mr. John Ruskin. Mr. Ruskin and Professor Norton were very intimate and had known each other for almost fifty years. Professor Norton will go abroad for a month or more next summer to look over the literary remains of Ruskin. He will be assisted by Mrs. Severn, a co-executor, who was Ruskin's cousin, and his housekeeper...
...manager of the crew at the Naval School, Annapolis, has challenged the University of Pennsylvania crew to a race on the Severn above Annapolis, June 10. The Pennsylvania crew will accept if satisfactory arrangements can be made with regard to expenses. The Pennsylvania manager has written to Annapolis that there is little doubt but that the race will be rowed...
Another interesting paper is one on "Joseph Severn and his Correspondents." The correspondents are Richard Westmacott, the painter, George Richmond, the painter, and others; but the most interesting letter of the series is from John Ruskin, giving his first impressions of Venice. One quotation is characteristic and not without truth: "I saw," says Mr. Ruskin, "what the world is coming to. We shall put it into a chain armor of railroad, and then everybody will go everywhere every day, until every place is like every other place; and then when they are tired of changing stations and police they will...
...school was founded in 1845, by the Hon. George Bancroft, then Secretary of Navy, and was located on government land at the mouth of the Severn river. From the time of its foundation improvements in the character of the school have been continually going on. The grounds have been cared for and are now kept in the trim state befitting government property...
...monument to Keats and his artist-friend, Severn, was unveiled in Rome, March...