Word: colors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson as the writer...
...Fogg Museum has just acquired, as a gift from Mr. C. F. Murray of London, a very beautiful water-color drawing by J. M. W. Turner. This drawing is from the collection of the late John Ruskin, and is referred to in the printed catalogue of that collection as among the most wonderful drawings by the master's hand. It is now on view in the upper gallery of the Museum...
...Botanical Department has just received of Miss French of Boston two volumes of original water-color sketches of exotic and native plants. A few of the drawings will be exhibited from time to time in one of the cases in the balcony of the Botanical Museum. The outlines are all accurate, the coloring effective, and the execution very artistic...
...Clipston Sturgis '81 will lecture under the auspices of the Pen and Brush Club tonight, on "Methods of Architectural Rendering," explaining the various methods of water color, crayon, pen and ink, and pencil work. The lecture will begin at 8.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall, and will be open to the University...
...Clipston Sturgis '81 will lecture under the auspices of the Pen and Brush Club tomorrow night, on "Methods of Architectural Rendering." He will explain the various methods of water color, crayon, pen and ink, and pencil work, and will illustrate his talk by many examples of his own rendering. Mr. Sturgis is one of the foremost of Boston architects, and is at present engaged on plans for the new Art Museum...