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...record of the Senate, in which almost every president and all our greatest statesmen have at sometime sat, with that of the governors of our states chosen by popular vote. The United States Senate for the past 100 years has been the best seond chamber on the earth. His manner and delivery created a very favorable impression...
...marriage Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter. He owed his start to Sir Philip Fickness, who introduced him to a great many fashionable people, whose portraits he painted. During the time he lived in Suffolk he painted a great many landscapes, which show the first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or 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...
...well as in a brilliant revival of his last season's success, "The Butterflies," and other plays. Mr. Drew stands foremost in the rank of light comedians, nor is it hard to explain the cause of his unquestionable popularity. He delivers his comedy lines in a rich, nonchalant manner that is characteristic of society men, club men, and men about town. His success is due in a measure to the fact that there does not seem to be any actor at present who can reproduce this manner in the same degree of naturalness that Mr. Drew imparts to every character...
Last evening Mr. Clemens Herschel lectured in the Jefferson Laboratory under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society on "Roman Aqueducts." He treated the subject in a very interesting manner, describing the system of water supply of ancient Rome, and giving a brief history of the structures. After the lecture, lantern slides were exhibited showing the present condition of the aqueducts...
Dean Hodges made a short address at a public meeting of the St. Paul's Society last night. He spoke on the institution of Ash Wednesday and on the proper manner of observing Lent. He pointed out that Ash Wednesday was the beginning of Lent but that there was no end. The words forty days merely stood for an indefinite number. The observation of Lent was like the climbing of a ladder, one always reaches to a fresh rung and leaves the old one behind. Each succeeding Ash Wednesday is the fresh rung in the ladder...