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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fine Arts, the. (search)
SwitzerlandSchmidt980.29612 TurkeyMauser890.3015 United States armyKrag-Jorgensen980.305 United States navyLee——0.2365 sociation now has a superb building on Broad Street, which was first opened to the public in April, 1876. Unwise management and alleged injustice to the younger artists who were studying in the New York Academy caused great dissatisfaction, and in the autumn of 1825 they held a meeting and organized a Society for Improvement in Drawing. This movement was made at the instigation of Samuel F. B. Morse, who was made president of the association. At a meeting of the association in January, 1826, Mr. Morse submitted a plan for the formation of what was called a National Academy of Design in the United States. The proposition was adopted, and the new academy was organized on Jan. 15, with Mr. Morse as president, and fourteen associate officers. The academy then founded flourished from the beginning, and is now one of the most cherished institutions of New York C
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
tur, awarded to him, Feb. 1, 1823, probably as a recognition of good conduct and attention to studies, is preserved, running thus:— Scholae; Latinae in aula. Detur Carolo Sumner. Juveni ingenuo atque laude digniori. Qui cupit Qui studet, &c., Ars Poet. 412. optatam cursu contingere metam, Multa tulit fecitque puer. Some of his attempts at Latin poetry, at this time, are preserved,—two hexameters, one of June 26, 1825, Ad Inferos Orpheos descensus, and the other of January, 1826, Hectoris mors, and an ode of June 15, 1826, Ad ver, in eight verses. While at the Latin School, he did not distance the greater number of the pupils in the prescribed course; but his general knowledge and occasional efforts in composition, as well as fair standing in recitations, insured him a respectable rank as a scholar. He gave no promise of a remarkable career; and yet both teachers and pupils respected his qualities of mind and his disposition. The exhibition, or annual vis
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
application of Law 61, for divisions with reference to proficiency, which was made for only one year and to one class, and during that time very imperfectly administered, he says:— The remaining branch to which this law was applicable was French; and to this branch its application began three months later than to the other branches, because the Freshmen do not begin French till they have been three months in College, pursuing other studies. Fifty-five Freshmen entered for French, in January, 1826. Seven of them, who knew more or less of the language, were put at once into an advanced division. The remaining forty-eight, who were wholly ignorant of it, were broken into five alphabetical divisions, which after March, when their powers became known, were arranged into five divisions according to proficiency. At the end of the first term there was already a wide difference between them. At the end of the second there were about two hundred and fifty pages between them. And at the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., The Medford Grasshopper. (search)
s This enjoine was the Old Grasshopper, the first bought by the town in accordance with its vote of March 7, 1763. After it had seen over thirty years of service, and housed near the market-place, it was located near Hastings lane at the top of Marm Simonds' hill. That any enginemen or company were then appointed to care for it, records fail to show. Probably it was simply housed there during a dozen years. In the record of October, 1816, it was styled the Western Engine, and in January, 1826, the No. 2 Engine. After the earlier years, at the November meeting, some one was appointed to keep the snow from the doors at a stipend of fifty cents for the season and under the penalty of one dollar for neglect. The company's hours of meeting varied from two o'clock in November to seven in June, and no meetings were held in December, February or March. Various members were drawn to see that the engine is in perfect order after being called out to a fier. Absentees' names were r
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
and a New church. A Study in genealogy and also one in history. SEVERAL years ago there came under our observation a collection of letters received by a relative and long carefully preserved by him, which led to a protracted genealogical research. They numbered a hundred and fifty or more, and all but one were intact. That one was written, evidently, on two sheets of note paper, the text of its numbered pages, 5, 6, and 7 proving the fact. We quote from its page 5:— He sailed Jan. 1826, with Mr Sessions, agent of Colonization Soc., Mr. Force a printer, and a large number of colonists in the ship Vine, arriving at Liberia in thirty-four days. He died July 23, 1826, of climatic fever. At once this query arose, To whom did the pronoun he refer? And the lack of the preceding but missing pages with the date and place of writing became more and more evident. It was written in a clear and excellent hand, and before closing with assurance of regard, the writer said:— I