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...quotation for the day from Oscar, printed at the head of this column, reminds us that in reviewing "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Copley, a Boston critic styled Wilde a "master phrasemonger." The play-wright has little in the matter of phrasing over the Harvard professor who lectured on H. G. Wells as "the arch-rabbit of literature...
After post-graduate work both at the Graduate School here and at the University of Berlin, Mr. Woods was a master at Groton School for ten years. He then became a reporter for the New York Evening Sun; turned from that to lumber business in Mexico; and, before taking up his position as Deputy Police Commissioner in New York, was connected with the cotton converting business in Boston. In 1914 he was made Police Commissioner of New York City, holding this position until 1917. During the war he was on the staff of the committee on Public Information for foreign...
That Booth Trakington is a past master, and a popular one, in the art of interpreting the emotions of youth, particularly the youth of seventeen, was again demonstrated at the Hollis Street Theatre on Monday evening, where a large first-night audience enthusiastically applauded the appearance of "Clarence." When Bostonians insistently encore a piece until the leading actor has taken several curtain-calls, and refuse to be satisfied until he has made some sort of a speech, then the success of that play is assured. Wherefore, we may expect "Clarence" to make his abode at the Hollis for some time...
These etchings cover the whole period of Rembrandt's career, and illustrate the entire range of subjects used by the master--religious, allegorical, landscape, and portrait, in all of which there is a profound human interest. His mastery of technique is shown alike in such subjects as "Christ and His Disciples," etched with greatest abstraction, and the "Hundred Guilder Print," where details in the shadows have been worked out with extreme care. There are prints from his early period, executed entirely with the etching needle; others dating--from the middle of his career, when he used dry-point in connection...
...degrees of Master of Arts is given to properly qualified students for a year of advanced study completed with distinction, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is awarded, not upon the completion of a specified curriculum, but upon the reaching of a standard of attainment, tested by examinations and the preparation of an original piece of investigation in the form of a thesis. The minimum period of study for this degree is two years, but students commonly spend from three to five years...