Word: artful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton is to have a new dormitory which will be situated between Edwards Hall and the Art Museum...
...Year Book" of Cornell University, which has just been published, shows that during the last twenty years the total number of graduates was 1,352. Of these 45 are engaged in agriculture, 51 in architecture and building, 5 in art, 23 in banking, 11 in chemistry and assaying, 150 in civil engineering, 246 in education, 30 in electrical engineering, 61 in newspaper work, 235 in law, 25 in manufacturing, 43 in mechanical engineering, 65 in medicine and surgery, 115 in mechanical pursuits, 30 in the ministry, 5 in publishing, 12 in scientific investigation and 65 in study; 121 are without...
...Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not voidable, but is binding on the United States, and is part of "the supreme law of the land."- Hall's Int. Law, 281-283, 293, 300; Constitution, art...
Although it is true that dramatic art cannot have its highest value except as the expression of contemporary modes of thought, yet there are some canons of universal application. Aristotle tried to formulate these canons, but he had little influence on the drama, as the greatest poet lived before his time. He was himself largely under the influence of the "Oedipus Tyrannus." These canons are the so-called "three unities" of space, time, and action. The strict limitation of the play to one spot is not authorized by Aristotle. The simplicity of the Greek plays, and the few possible changes...
...unity of plot is a very different thing, and it is as important now as it ever was. Every critic must agree with Aristotle, and every art says undertake only one thing at a time. Unity of action, simplicity of design, and subordination of detail are requisites in every tragedy of lasting excellence, whose purpose it is to purify through terror and pity the minds...