Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...group of pen and ink sketches by Mr. Papanti of Boston, cousin of the well-known dancing teacher, has just been published in a large engraving. The central piece is a sketch of the quadrangle from in front of Grays, together with University, Harvard, and a corner of Massachusetts Halls. The view is unusually complete, and is a difficult one to secure. Around this are grouped two rows of single views of the various halls and buildings, including the dormitories outside of the yard, the recitation halls, Memorial Hall, the two gymnasiums, the Law and Medical school buildings, the observatory...
...Island Legend" is an interesting sketch. The description is excellent, and the style effective...
...Popular Science Monthly for June has a sketch of the life of Professor Sumner of Yale...
...Peasant Rebellion" is a brief sketch of an incident of the serf insurrection of 1525, by Mr. Prescott F. Hall. The description is delicately and pathetically written. There is no poetry in the number. It is completed by the usual Brief, which has at last come down nearly to date...
...Jose Coach" is a short sketch of California stage life by Mr. Frederick L. Duncan. It is a very good piece of description, the introduction being especially vivid. The idea is not new but the treatment is excellent, maintaining the interest to the very end. "Topics of the Day" include a thoughtful and suggestive letter to the freshman class, and a communication on the mutilation of library books, both of which are well worth reading, The former deserves the attention and reflection not only of those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating...