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...present over-development of athletics in the colleges of the country is particularly harmful in its effects upon the preparatory schools. It is not to be expected that young boys should set their ideals higher than those which seem to move their elders; and certainly of all the activities of the college men of today, those directed toward the attainment of the athletic ideal are the most conspicuous. The school boy sees almost no side of college life but the devotion to athletics in one form or another, of which he has constant evidence. The real intellectual work which...
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...
...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 landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...appearance again on the Boston stage is highly welcome. Dorcas is a very light, amusing, musical comedy. The story dwells upon the escapades of a young woman of title who resorts to strategem to satisfy herself of the character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English Lord. In all these three characters Miss Hall appears to great advantage. Having the physique and pose which will set off any costume, there is peculiar interest attached to her appearance...
...another week the audiences at the Columbia, where the rollicking comedy "The New Boy" is being presented will have every night three hours of shaking laughter over this jolly play. Ever since the opening night the theatre has been crowded and the constant re-echo of vociferous mirth and the general verdict of Boston coincides with that of New York that there is more amusing material in "The New Boy" than in any comedy presented here for years. The action is lively and the comical situations follow each other as fast as professional foot racers. There is ginger...