Word: whistler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...modern etchings, most of them on landscape subjects, have been given to the Fogg Art Museum, and are now on exhibition in the cases against the east wall of the Print Room. They were drawn by Francis Seymour Haden, a London surgeon in large practice, and James McNeil Whistler, the painter. They illustrate a variety of treatment known as the "open line," the "dry point," and "elaborate chiaroscuro." The set of Haden's Etchings was selected by him expressly for the Gray Collection of the Museum...
...Portrait by Whistler" by H. U. Greene is perhaps the best thing in this line in the number, though it can hardly be called poetry. "The Song of Man" by H. B. Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice...
...verse of the number, "A Head by Whistler" (anonymous) and "The Sun-Virgin," by W. V. Moody, show much poetical feeling and insight. "A Head by Whistler," especially, has an exquisiteness of diction that cannot but charm, although in the latter part there is an over-luxuriousness of language. "The Sun-Virgin" possesses the strength of diction and imagery which characterizes most of Mr. Moody's productions, but is permeated by considerable vagueness of thought; and such a name as "Xingpal" in the middle of a verse reminds one of a clash of cymbals in some dulcet measure...
...Whistler...
Earned runs, Harvard 1, Washington 2; three base hits, Bader, Bird; home run, Jordan; base on balls, Bader, Underwood, Dean (2), Alward, Mason, Frothingham, Downer; base on errors, Harvard 3, Washington 2; struck out, Howland, Alward, Upton (2), Frothingham, Downer, Bird (2), O'Brien (3), Whistler (2), Underwood (2); passed balls, Nichols 2; wild pitch, Underwood; double plays, Glesson-O'Brien-Whistler, Downer-Upton-Frothingham. flies caught, Harvard 3, Washington 6; fouls caught, Harvard 1. Washington 2; out on bases, Harvard 3, Washington 3; left on bases, Harvard 8, Washington 1; time 2 hr.; umpire Bond...