Word: artists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor N. S. Shaler, Dean of the Scientific School; Addison E. Verrill, professor of zoology at Yale; and Burt G. Wilder, professor of comparative anatomy and zoology at Cornell, from the class of 1862; James Cosmo Newberry, of the British Civil Service, from 1864; Ernest W. Longfellow, the eminent artist; Professor Edward C. Pickering; and Professor John Trowbridge, from the class...
...with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses of English scenery are many and charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed. The letters of Flaubert note in the main artistic procedure and the painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits of the heroic yet very human man as well...
With Dostoyevsky the artist is screened by the thinker and the moralist. He was an active worker for the establishment of Christian principles of love and equality of men. His doctrine was embraced in the one sentence, "Every man is a sinner against every other...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...occasion to be proud of. Not only was the opera given in a thoroughly artistic manner, with new scenery, fresh costumes, andc., but there was a hearty spirit of earnestness that pervaded every member of the company-and that is much in these times. Miss Clara Lane never appeared to better advantage. The music is the most difficult she has yet been called upon to sing, filled as it is with top notes and sustained passages that task the vocal ability of any artist. To say that Miss Lane filled the demands of the character is but giving...