Word: bold
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...delicacy of perception, to be obtained by the study of art, which can not be acquired elsewhere. Following the changes of style and technique through the history of ancient art, the student feels the moral conditions which were expressed by those changes in art. Thus he must perceive the bold sincerity which marks the style of a risingschool, and the gradual loss of sincerity which always accompanies the decline. These perceptions of moral causes help strongly in forming noble traits of character...
...game. Gentlemen, you must put your shoulders to the work; you must lend yourselves in earnest to the effort which has got to be made to improve the spirit of the game if the game itself is to be saved. You must not be afraid to make bold experiments and sweeping changes in the rules. If you are timid, if you are over-conservative, either from negligence or from fear of losing some temporary partisan advantage, the game, with all its splendid qualities, moral and intellectual as well as physical, will have to go. And on your shoulders will fall...
Several notices of late have appeared both in your columns and in those of the Boston papers concerning a certain club of students in this University who have taken upon themselves the title of "Harvard University Ice Polo Team." Is not this a bold and unwarranted assumption? That five men should band together in what is essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters...
...Harvard University, the Faculty cannot fail to mention his frank and wise recognition of the fact that Harvard could not fulfil the mission he imagined for it without both the material and the intellectual wealth, which must be brought by numbers and by popular sympathy and interest. The bold adoption of this fundamental principle of action,- accepted with difficulty by many devoted lovers of Harvard, twenty-five years ago,- has enabled the University, while gaining strenth and freedom for herself; to discharge one of her highest duties to the country, by opening her doors more widely to both students...
...their masterly use of color. Whatever their subject, it was beautified by wonderful contrasts of light and shade. Color is usually associated with gaiety and frivolity; but those old masters did not treat it gaily or flippantly, and it forms the great charm and beauty of their work. Their bold massing, their sharp and delicate contrasts, have never been equalled...