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Another reason of our shortness of memory is, without doubt, the practice of cramming for examinations. An impression made on the brain during the hours between midnight and morning is not likely to be of the most permanent character. The utmost ambition of some men seems to be to retain...
Having found some fault with Rembrandt, no fuller reparation can be made than by turning our attention to the world-renowned Hundred Guilder piece. Here Rembrandt makes himself immortal, and uses his chiaro-oscuro in a most effective manner. Professor Lubke has called Rembrandt, as compared with Vandyck or Rubens...
Some of the Durers are late additions to the collection; and it certainly is far richer now than when it lacked the brilliant impression of the print variously called "The Great Fortune," "Nemesis," "Temperance in the Clouds," etc. This print gives a winged female figure in the clouds above a...
It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...
AN important, though not very prominent, feature in this oration was Mr. Adams's satirical allusion to the proneness of men to forget or despise the teachings of experience. However well merited any general censure in this regard is, the orator had no occasion to complain for himself; the earnest...