Word: painting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These last offenders were tried in the city court, but they escaped free of fine or imprisonment through legal technicalities, thus avoiding welldeserved punishment. During the same year an anti-senior society paper was started and conducted vigorously and successfully. Recently an elaborate pamphlet appeared...
...eliminated or else passed over with the general statement that, "after Tarquinius the Roman people became unruly, and revolted against the legal authorities. A time of hideous disturbance followed until Julius Caesar appeared." In the interest of Russian "law and order, " it was forbidden too at that time to paint Nero and Caligula in anything but rosy colors. Even now France in its Revolutionary period is a blank to us; and as for Sclav history as well might we search for truth there as for honesty in the Government service...
...Washington Monument in Richmond. On the same hill lie the remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from the college "not in the war paint of the savage warrior, but clad in the armor of the Prince of Peace, a herald of the gospel of love." The patriotic duty of the past century was to drive the Indians across the great rivers to the wild West; the philanthropic duty of today is to receive them...
...examinations-anything and everything. He wishes to give these affairs world wide notoriety; to have the insignificant details of each day's preliminary practice published in the newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than a decade of training, or a hundred hard races...
...Frederick Vinton, the artist, has been engaged to paint a portrait of Dr. A. P. Peabody for the university...