Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lodge '71, who for nearly twelve years was Senator Hoar's colleague in the United States senate. Senator Lodge frankly does not attempt to discuss senator Hoar's place as an historic figure and a statesman, but rather gives his own impression of the character of the man. The sketch is both interesting and inspiring...
...Harvard's First scholars, 1860-69," is found a brief recapitulation of the occupations and deeds of the first ten students for the classes of those years. "The Harvard Faculty in 1798 '97," is an interesting sketch of some of Harvard's instructors of over a century ago, taken from the recollections of Horace Bianey, 1797. E. K. Rand '94 and C. Kikkawa '83 contribute sketchkes of Joseph Trumbull Stickney '85 and of Charles Summer Griffen '95, respectively...
...present Advocate, outside of a "slam" at a professor of the University who doesn't mind the boys snowballing, and G. W.'s clever sketch "Happy Thoughts in Cambridge," which suggests an agreeable range of reading on the part of Harvard students,--there is not a word which might not have been written in New York, or Kansas City, or even New Haven. The Advocate has risen to the position of a literary journal which delights, amuses and elevated the public taste. It even has a Christmas story, Mr. Hagedorn's "The Pastor of Wenkendorf," which is agreeable, climactic...
After a brief sketch of the history of industrial combinations in the United States. Mr. Montague shows that the "trust problem" resolves itself into this: If the trusts deserve to live the savings of combinations must be found real and legitimate; and the evils flowing either from the mere fact of monopoly or from the particular form assumed by existing combinations must be shown to be self-corrective or capable of correction by statute. Then attempting the solution of this problem, the author brings forward evidence tending to show that most trusts have not raised prices and have assembled sufficient...
...album, which is now on exhibition at Notman's. This dummy shows the general form and size of the album, its binding and the quality of the paper, printing and half-tone work. A great many improvements have been made over recent albums, chiefly the publication of a short sketch of the life of each man. In 1901 and 1902 a so-called "Class Book" was issued containing a sketch of each man and a class history: this book was sold for three dollars and the album was issued at the price of five dollars. This year, however, the Photographic...