Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McCulloch, Jr., contributes a only other prose article. "A Pupil of Giotte" describes the single masterpiece of an Italian painter, and tells how the artist was so fearful of overshadowing his master's fame that he renounced his profession for the convent...
...mind. A group of little children, clad in white, and with wreaths of flowers on their heads, go by singing a hymn written for the occasion. But Ruprecht I is a staunch Catholic, and the representatives of the church must not be forgotten. Here come pale nuns from the convent on the Heiligenberg and stern-faced monks, with sandalled feet and rough, rope-girt robes and dark cowls; and in the midst of them rides a gorgeous Cardinal, the papal legate sent in honor of the occasion. The Prince and his spouse, Princess Beatrice, magnificently arranged in brocade and blue...
...seventy-six. For the last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern...
...superior of the Convent of Notre Dame at St. Albans, Vt., says the Woman's Journal, is thinking of introducing a system of gymnastics contrived by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard, which is undoubtedly the best...
...started at Newport, R. I., to be called Touro College. Many of the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...