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...senior class at Bates college will erect in Hathorn Hall, before graduating, a life-size bust of Charles Sumner, made by Preston Powers in Florence, Italy...
...Winthrop and others. The singing of a hymn by the congregation and the pronouncing of the benediction closed the service. The monument which was presented was designed by Mr. Henry Van Brunt of Boston. In the centre is a replica in Italian marble of Miss Anne Whitney's bust of Dr. Walker now in Memorial Hall...
...meeting of the Longfellow Memorial Committee, held yesterday in London, it was finally voted that a bust of Longfellow be place in the poet's corner. The committee includes Tennyson, Max Muller, Geo. Augustus Sala and Thomas Hughes...
...with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other noticeable ornaments within the space of a few inches on their breast, and leave the nether parts to take care of themselves. It should...
...them farmers 'round New Haven 's got. They say he's a teaser; bite right thro' a man's coat and think nothin' 't all of it. Barnum's trying to git him, and if his circus comes our way, I'm goin' to see that ere lamb or bust. Here comes that cussed slow clerk...