Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...historical episode, a small stone called Plymouth Rock has obtained some celebrity, and is the foundation on which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this, and merely sketch the experiences of a small party of the unpredestinated, who invaded the hallowed precincts of orthodox doctrine for purposes other than those of historical research or religious study...
LAST spring we noticed the formation of the new Shakspere Society, and gave the titles of several old books to be reprinted by it, as well as a sketch of the general purposes of its founders. Since that time, notwithstanding the constant attention of its director, Mr. Furnivall, the society has met with some reverses, and it is now plain to be seen that all the hopes of the friends of the movement will not be realized, but that there is still much the society can do, and will do, towards a careful study of Shakspere. It is doubtful whether...
...question of adopting a system of late dinners seems destined to thorough discussion, and it certainly merits debate, for such a change would involve an alteration in the daily regime of every man in College. A rough sketch of the arguments thus far brought forward would give, for late dinners, the consideration of health; of convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour...
...NORTON delivered his second Lecture - The Works of Turner - last Saturday at one o'clock. He gave an interesting sketch of the history of landscape painting, and showed very clearly what was Turner's true position as an artist. The Trustees of Vassar College kindly sent on two valuable colored sketches by Turner's own hand; one was the Bernese Oberland and the other a Bacharach on the Rhine...
...before us. The fondness for pictures which we suggested in a recent number has developed its natural result sooner than we had anticipated. It has initiated the pictorial business in college journalism. The last number contains a couple of beautiful woodcuts of the new boathouse, together with an accurate sketch of some double-scullists, and a lifelike representation of the University Six, showing the true Yale position of the back and shoulders at the beginning of the stroke. We wish it every success in its new enterprise, and only hope it may not follow the example of most illustrated papers...