Word: adornment
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...mean to disparage imagism save when it becomes a conscious pose. Then it goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation of sounds in the terms of sight, of color in the terms of feeling and so forth. The author may adorn his poetry with these things, but if he writes his verse for the sake of these things and nothing else, he becomes an aesthetic gymnast, more a psychologist than a poet...
...life-sized portrait of Dean Briggs is being painted by Edmund C. Tarbell, the eminent Boston artist. The portrait is a gift of the classes of 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915 to the University and will adorn the Living Room of the Union with the other portraits of famous Harvard men. The funds necessary to remunerate the artist for his services were subscribed entirely by members of the five classes mentioned and though a large sum of money was raised, it would not ordinarily be sufficient to pay the price for a work of this sort. The raising...
...South than the presentation of a loving cup by the Cotton Belt States Club of Harvard. While these men were Harvard men and loyal to Harvard, yet their pride in their own section of country was greater and they had to give evidence to this feeling. This cup will adorn one of the most conspicuous places in the Trophy Room which Vanderbilt must have...
...found in practically all of the moving structures of engineering, but it is usually the reverse in stationary structures. Many engineers build simply for utility without regard to looks. A cure for this is co-operation with architects, which are not, as many engineers imagine, simply employed to adorn buildings...
...love and admiration to all who knew him; while his books have brought to Harvard wide renown in his chosen field of Mediaeval English History both in this country and in Europe. Modest, unselfish and retiring, with the broad outlook and noble charity of judgment which supplement and adorn the highest attainment, he labored steadily onward, never courting prominence or notoriety, but at the same time deeply grateful for the many testimonies of admiration and respect from the world of scholars which poured in upon him in increasing numbers during the past ten years. His last illness, though prolonged...