Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...famous class of '46. He was master of the Roxbury Latin for a number of years. Later he studied law in the office of S. N. Phillips, and for forty years had a law office on Court street. He was at the time of his death public administrator of Suffolk County. He was for years a member of the Roxbury school board, and in the sixties was editor of the Massachusetts Ploughman...
Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
Shortly after his marriage Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter. He owed his start to Sir Philip Fickness, who introduced him to a great many fashionable people, 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...
...Putnam stayed seven years in all at the Athenaeum and the Public Library and then resigned and returned to the east. For the last three years he has been a member of the Suffolk bar, in active practice in Boston. In this time he has made one trip abroad to buy books on architecture and the fine arts for Minneapolis...
There will be eight team races, the most prominent one being between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. A second Harvard team will compete with the B. A. A. The other races are Amherst vs. Dartmouth, Boston College vs. Boston University, "Tech." vs. Brown, Worcester A. C. vs. Suffolk A. C., East Boston A. C. vs. St. Mary's A. C., and 22d Regiment, N. Y. N. G., vs. 1st Brigade...