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...watercolor by Winslow Homer representing Fishing Boats, Key West, and painted doubtless during the winter of 1903 and 1904 which Homer spent at Key West, has just been loaned to the Fogg Art Museum. The picture bears the artist's initials but is not dated. Homer's tropical scenes rank perhaps among his finest works. Mr. Downes in his book on Homer says, "For pure beauty of colour and light they have never been surpassed, and it is hard to believe that they ever...
...mysteries of the life beyond death, science will doubtless reveal many clues in time, but one must be distinctly credulous to accept Sir Conan Doyle's criteria in the meantime because he invented Sherlock Holmes. San Francisco Journal
When questioned about the Japanese problem Bishop Brent said: "The Japanese now in the Islands number only about 5000. They do not like the tropical climate, and, unlike the Chinese, do not adapt themselves readily to unaccustomed conditions. Commercial supremacy, however, is their greatest desire, and doubtless they would like to seize the Islands, if the Americans withdrew. The well-known prowess of the natives in guerilla fighting would make such a conquest very difficult even if unhindered by the intervention of another power. Nevertheless, if independence were granted, it would be necessary to insure it by an international agreement...
...eyes had become accustomed, to the darkness, they were met with an astonishing sight. Standing in the centre of the spacious rockchamber were five motionless figures, hooded and masked, and shrouded from head to foot in startling pink garments. (Pink was the color of purity among the ancient Incas, doubtless because it is the color most rarely found in nature.) Kneeling at the feet of each of these standing figures, but clad in less distinctive garments, were other figures, in the act of kissing the bare feet of their superiors. From my reading in the records, I was able...
...most novel consideration and doubtless the one which will cause the greatest dispute will be a suggestion that the present method of kicking a goal after a touchdown be changed so that the scoring team will have the ball on the fifteen yard line and from scrimmage formation will have the chance of scoring the aditional point with a kick, rush, or pass. Besides these question the gathering will consider changes in the rules in regard to cutting down from behind, substitutions, unnecessary diving, kicking of a loose ball, and several other points of minor interest