Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The university with its elaborate machinery of instruction would then come into play to supplement college instruction. The university professors would teach; and the students of each college, under the supervision and by the advice of the master of the college, would select their courses. The system of general university...
The best Greek sculptors created ideal, wholly impersonal types of physical perfection. When this sculpture filtered into Rome, puissant Roman sculptors were dissatisfied with merely copying the Greeks. Realists, they chiselled the seamed, tense, virile faces of the men who built Rome, who strove for justice and power rather than...
He keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern...
It is only candidates for honors, of course, who face this examination. But in this particular case, and probably in the case of a similar plan being adopted by other departments of instruction, there attaches to the examination the character of a qualifying test. Passage of this test admits one...
Examinations were made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time...