Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...portrait of ex-President Robinson of Brown university is to be presented by friends to the college gallery of portraits in Memorial hall...
...dormitories outside of the yard, the recitation halls, Memorial Hall, the two gymnasiums, the Law and Medical school buildings, the observatory, the laboratories, the museums, the two chapels, the Hasty Pudding building, and several private houses. Even the old Thayer Common Hall, which has been destroyed, is represented. A portrait of President Eliot, and a drawing of the John Harvard statue also find places among the pictures. Everything is brought up to date, and even the promised gate is anticipated. At the corners of the outside border of the engraving are the various seals which the college...
...United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
...January meeting of the Harvard club of New York city, Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell '82, presented to the club a large framed photographic portrait of President Eliot, which was greeted with much applause and which now hangs in a prominent place in the club rooms...
Another valuable article announces the discovery last summer of a portrait of Washington hitherto unknown and uncatalogued, belonging to a Mr. Peter de Vries, of Arnhem, Holland. The circumstances in regard to the discovery of the portrait are very singular and are well worth the reading. An unpublished fac-simile letter of Washington to James Duane in 1780 also appears. The other papers contributed are: "A Canadian-American Liaison," by Watson Griffing; "The Oriental Account of the Discovery of America;" by A. J. Hall; "The Mound-Builders and the North American Indians," by J. H. Patton; "Slavery in New York...