Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Unfortunately, Gorgona died young. His work, however, though inferior to that of Titian, perhaps influenced the latter. Calm in mood, dignified in conception, Titian is the embodiment of excellence in painting. He made no attempt to express the inexpressible, but was rather the portrayer of humanity. For ninety-nine years he lived in full possession of his powers, combining a perfect mastery of his art with a wide knowledge of nature. It is generally not permissible to call an artist the best there has been, but if anyone deserves the superlative, it is Titian...
Carpaccio, a less distinguished contemporary of Bellini, but one who has been praised highly by Ruskin, was not exactly a religious or devotional painter, but he leads us rather to the historic, the legendary and the chivalric. His pictures are the first attempt to get the out-of-door effect in nature. In all the Italian art of the fifteenth century there is no affectation, but sincerity, simplicity and purity...
...closed last night. In addition to the regular events, N. Kishimoto, Gr., will give an exhibition of Japanese top-spinning, and a team of men from the Turn Verein will give an exhibition on the parallel bars. It is also expected that Sweeney will come over and make another attempt to break his own high jump record. The entries for the meeting...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first of the great Venetian painters. He has been called an idealist, a realist, a dreamer and a scientist. A scientist he certainly was, and it is to be greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and various tastes urged him different ways. He looked too deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically...
...generally understood that the meeting in Sanders Theatre, addressed by President Eliot, Mr. Storey and Mr. Dana, was an attempt to accomplish partly this object. Public speakers of high character such as Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Schurz, ev-Governor Russell, who have already consented to address the University, will from time to time present the reform question in all its aspects. Minor addresses, to the club particularly, as to the workings of the reform in various definite parts of the country will also be given...