Word: styling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this new play Mr. MacFarlane has for a vehicle a sweet but somewhat flimsy structure, mingling comedy with old style melodrama. The scene is laid in Scotland in the early nineteenth century and the costumes worn are quaint and attractive...
...pages struck off from their presses. Louis Elzevir, born in 1592, left a number of sons who carried on his large business. They in turn bequeathed it to two grandsons, Bonaventure and Abraham. Bonaventure was the greatest of the family. His illustrious name is perpetuated in a style of type commonly used in the present day. Later the Elzevir family branched out and their establishments were set up in Amsterdam and other cities...
About 1800 old-style type was abandoned in England, owing to the influence of an Italian topographer, Bodoni. Bodoni has two books in the Williamson collection, a large folio volume and a small volume. The date of the former is 1791 and of the latter 1793. Ordinary text-type of today is patterned after Bodoni's original designs...
Several articles in this number of the magazine fall below the standard of literary style which the Illustrated has set for itself and frequently upheld. From this fault the editorials are happily free as is also the interesting treatise by Mr. Forest Izard '08. The editorials are vivacious in their treatment of topics which are not dead but robustly alive. The comment on "Sophomore English," for instance, contains a good deal of interesting news as well as some sound thought. Mr. Izard's notes on the D. U. Production of "Henry IV" is learned and perhaps necessarily long...
...practical use of the dormant gymnasium fund of $10,000, he sounded interested persons on the matter, and all favored the project. A Boston architect was consulted. Plans were drawn up for a regulation pool to fill the lower part of the Union. It was to be in Pompeiian style, to measure seventy-five by thirty feet, with over fourteen feet bead room; to be ventilated artificially; to have an artesian well, and a filtering system; and to seat five hundred spectators. The estimated cost was $16,000, and only $6,000 remained to be raised, provided the gymnasium fund...