Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Class 4. A prize of one hundred dollars to Asa White Kenney Billings, of the senior class, for a dissertation entitled: An historical sketch of theories as to the nature of electricity, with especial attention to changes of theory within recent years...
...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 landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...getting away lest his strength should prove unequal to his promise, must be seen to be appreciated. Mr. Goodwin has been well known for his ability to cause people to laugh, in fact, his name is a simile for a smile, but in this pathetic little sketch he has made many eyes bright with moisture. Following "Garrick." Mr. Goodwin will appear as Golightly in Madison Morton's one-act comedy, "Lend Me Five Shillings." At the Saturday matinee Mr. Goodwin will present "A Gilded Fool," by Henry Guy Carleton...
...eminently fitted for the three roles and have met with the greatest commendation wherever they have appeared this season. Mr. George Alison will be seen as Viscount Litterly, Mr. Beaumont Smith as the Count De-Greville, and Mr. Lorrimer Stoddard as the Earl of Tweenways. It is unnecessary to sketch the plot of "The Amazons," but it is sufficient to say that the comedy is dainty and sparkling, and there is no reason why "The Amazons" should not make a decided hit on this, its second visit, as on its first...
...Garrison gave a brief sketch of the life of Mr. Phillips and told something of his character. He said that Mr. Phillips was a son of Harvard College and that her lustre would be greater on that account, yet the club bearing his name is the only evidence that he is remembered in the college...