Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Shortly after his marriage Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter. He owed his start to Sir Philip Fickness, who introduced him to a great many fashionable people, whose portraits he painted. During the time he lived in Suffolk he painted a great many landscapes, which show the first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early...
...this action the Freshman Debating Club is placed in a position of peculiar responsibility. It has won the opportunity it desired, and it must now prove itself worthy to take part in intercollegiate debate. Mere victory over Yale will not constitute such proof. The members of the club must show themselves able to conduct the debate with energy and with intelligent appreciation of its significance. The future of freshman debating will depend in large part upon the outcome of their efforts. If they succeed in proving the fears based upon their immaturity and inexperience to be groundless, the debate with...
...from playing by the rule which renders a man ineligible who has played for four years on any 'varsity team. It is the intention of the present management to send as many of these men as possible to the various preparatory schools at different times during the spring to show the interest which Harvard feels and always has felt in the schools which send graduates to Harvard. Such men, from their varied experience in baseball are able to give a great deal of useful information to a captain which if acted upon would enable a school to be represented...
Yesterday the candidates for the freshman nine were coached by R. D. Wrenn '95. Besides the regular work they practiced stealing bases. About 30 men are still trying, some of whom have already begun to show decided improvement...
...seem, though, as if the present question about intercollegiate football were admirably suited for discussion at a conference. The successful conduct of the conferences is sure to be matter of much difficulty, and it would be a great point gained to have the first one go off with some show of spirited interest. On the question of football the undergraduates would have more to say, and say it with greater freedom, than they would on any of the other subjects about which their opinion is desired. A conference now, we believe, might be made an entire success...