Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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McClure's Magazine--"Sketch of Attorney-General Knox," by L. A. Coolidge...
...magazine also contains two anonymous articles: "From a Graduate's Window" and "A Disappointment in Criticism" a sketch of the life of the late Professor Bocher by Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, and "Were Burgoyne's Officers Quartered on the College?" by E. H. Smith '96. There are in addition excellent pictures of Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, 61, Professor Rocher, Pierce Hall and the University nine...
...description of the outside of the new building. Each separate room is then described and information about the various casts and drawings given in detail. The article is illustrated by excellent cuts of the Hall of Casts, of the freehand drawing room, and of the library, and by a sketch of the old architectural building. Next in the number is printed in full the lecture on "Illuminating Gas," delivered before the Engineering Society last November by Mr. W. E. McKay. The last article on "Storage Batteries," by P. W. Davis A.B. '93, S.B. '95, describes some of the mechanical...
...past year, to the annual dinner, and to the organization of the Topiarian Club. The last editorial calls attention to the election of Dr. A. E. Kennelly as professor in engineering for next year and states the courses that he will give. The number is concluded by a sketch of Dr. Kennelly's life and by an account of his valuable contributions to science...
...student rumination, clever, but not over-skillful. "The Leisure that Makes Men," is evidently a new departure into the light essay field long ago made agreeably famous. "The Story of the Man who Sat in the Stocks," by Ezra Kidd, is perhaps as powerful and well told a sketch as needs be expected from an undergraduate pen. By far the best story in the number is "George: the Second Ghost," by E.R. Little. This glimpse of true humor, seems to us to be rather near to an ideal Advocate story...