Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deal more minutely with the somewhat different methods in use at the Harvard School, we find that most other institutions of architectural training base their ideas almost exclusively on the example set by the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. At Harvard the strong points of the French School in plan and composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study...
...writers, Congreve was perhaps the wittiest. Farquaar excelled in the splendid action which he introduced into his plays. Nowhere does this come nearer perfection than in "The Beaux Stratagem." The other of Farquaar's plays which every one should read is "Sir Harry Wildair." Charles Lamb always claimed that these plays were not immoral in their influence for the simple reason that no one believed in them. The heroes are essentially gentlemen,-or rather "truly good fellows," in spite of their seeming indecency. From Farquaar Sheridan really got his Charles Surface and Captain Absolute...