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...popular. Crude in their style and faulty in their execution and showing a hand still untrained, these sketches are full of life and meaning. Every little line of the face conveys some definite idea and is as expressive as the maturer production of later years, showing an in-born talent for portraiture and caricature. From that time forward his methods and execution have steadily improved. His illustrations of Grant's "Little Tin Gods on Wheels" are of as much value as the trilogy itself. For several years after he had graduated from college he continued to draw for the Lampoon...
...last year there was a very interesting course of lectures given by one of the instructors in philosophy. But beyond that, excepting the lectures connected with the gymnasium work, there has been nothing of the sort. Strangers are invited to speak or read before us, but of the home talent we have no advantage except by taking their courses. Now it would take but little labor for an instructor to prepare a general lecture on work with which he is so thoroughly familiar; and many men who do not find time to take his courses would be only too glad...
...time of the reformation it was changed to a school. The buildings, some of which were part of the old monastery and are still occupied, are all of sandstone. The school, which is very richly endowed, is intended for young nobles, although a few commoners who have shown marked talent and ability have been admitted. Everything is conducted in a most extravagant style. The cuisine and service can not be excelled. Of course so wealthy a school has had the very best of professors, of whom two of the most noted are Michael Neander, the famous scholar and hymn-writer...
...taught to reverence all sacred things and to take off their hats to churches and to the monks and priests whom they meet in the streets. The children of the upper classes have somewhat more attention paid to their education. It is generally supposed that the Russians are peculiarly talented as linguists. This is not the case. Although the higher classes of Russians are able to speak two or more languages in addition to their own this arises from the manner of their training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study...
Secure your tickets for the grand musical and literary entertainment at Union Hall, Thursday evening, Jan. 17, 1884, at Brock and Leavitt's. Talent-Germania Orchestra; Thomas Henry, cornetist; Wyzeman Marshall, elocutionist; Mrs. E. A. Taylor, soprano; Lotos Glee Club...