Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducted under the direction of the Boston Society of Architects, and are held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The examination in April 5th is a preliminary test. A problem in design will be given to those trying the examination, and they will be required do draw a sketch for it. The authors of whichever of these sketches that receive prizes will be allowed to compete for the Scholarship. They will be examined on the following subjects: History of Architecture and the Arts immediately connected with it; Elementary French, projective and perspective of shades and shadows; construction, (theory...
...floating in many of our brains in regard to the effect of too much learning on the fair sex. The story is well told but we wish that some of the incongruities which mar its effect had been avoided. The "Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne" is a short sketch of the character and opinions of a strange figure of the 16th century as they are recorded in his own writings. The style and language of the sketch are excellent...
Wednesday evening Prof. Goodale read a sketch of the life and work of the late Professor Gray, at a meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History...
...abounds in excellent reading matter. The prose articles of this number are exceptionally fine, while the poetry is not quite up to its usual mark. The eminent historian, Mr. James Schouler, contributes the first article on "Andrew Jackson, Doctor of Laws," and in it he gives a very entertaining sketch of the farce of conferring the degree of L. L. D. on so uncouth a Westerner as President Jackson was. Mr. Schouler's description of Andrew Jackson's characteristics and his estimate of his culture are particularly interesting. Harvard's attitude in conferring the degree on the people's president...
...Four 'Funny' Characters," is a cynical sketch of the life of four different types of college student. The style is rather too jerky and unpolished. Carlyle is jerky and unpolished; but Carlyle is forcible. Nobody can read "My Friend Blobbs" without enjoying its cleverness and the clear individuality which the writer makes out for his friend Blobbs. It seems he knows his man well, and he surely succeeds in making him "an open book" for all who will read this amusing sketch...