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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time of day, temperature, season of the year, and locality always are as plain in the work of a master as they would be to a man standing where the artist stood. Enthusism is invaluable. A man must be in love with his subject and must really long to tell other people the beauty of what he sees. With a feeling like this a painter cannot help giving his pictures life and truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Lecture. | 1/18/1894 | See Source »

...With Me," Professor Peabody read from the Scriptures. Words more fitting and suggestive on the occasion could scarcely have been selected: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he restoreth my soul." "Ask of the beasts and of the birds and of the fishes and they shall tell thee." "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor and the causes which I knew not I searched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funeral of Mr. Bolles. | 1/15/1894 | See Source »

...lecture given the club is to meet at the rooms of the different members. At these meetings none but members will be present and it is expected that the men will give short informal talks on their own original work and certain ones will be appointed to tell what is going on of interest in the chemical world and in the papers. These meetings will be largely social and it is hoped they will keep up an active interest in the work of the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston Chemical Club. | 12/11/1893 | See Source »

Probably never in the history of Harvard athletics has there been greater need of a glorious victory than just at this time. The Yale game pulled down the spirit of the students to a point which it has seldom reached and had Pennsylvania beaten us it is hard to tell what might have happened. Within a week we have gone clear to the depths of misery and now a plucky set of men have brought us up again to something above our normal spirit and have saved us from a disaster which would have had its effect on the good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/1/1893 | See Source »

...crowd of students who will line the Harvard side of Hampden Park. Nor is it enough that we think and feel this way. The faces, and this applies especially to the players and coaches, should show how the minds and hearts feel. The only way the students can tell what is being done on Soldiers Field is by the looks of the men who practice there; the rest of the students will be influenced by the smiles of these men and as much by their scowls. Let the whole atmosphere of the place be bright and cheerful for the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1893 | See Source »

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