Word: creations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...circulars aiming at the creation of a department library for the Department of Education have been drawn up and will be distributed in about a week. The establishment of a library in this department marks a distinct and important step in its advance, and is the beginning of a wider scheme which was prepared some time ago by Professor Hanus, but which cannot mature, probably for some years. One of these circulars outlines the growth of the Educational Department at Harvard and the other contains an appeal from the committee which was formed for the collection of funds. Their circular...
...comedian is in nature, and as such, has no limitation. Many great writers, including Victor Hugo and Lamartine, speak in praise of this art. The great aim and ambition of the art of the comedian, is to create. The person of the artist's creation laughs, weeps, hopes and sighs with us, because he lives with us, as a friend and compatriot. It is not the author alone who creates. The actor, by interpretation, creates also. He fits into the part and gives it individuality, making the part and the individual...
...musical programme for the Vesper Service this afternoon is as follows: "We March to Victory," Barnby; solo from Haydn's "Creation," Mr. E. M. Waterhouse; "Create in Me a New Heart...
Photographic work differs from the painter's in that the painter resorts to his own inner imaginative creation and moulds his production in every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus...
Environment is a long word, somewhat obscure in meaning, but it has a valuable place as indicating a way of looking at man that is characteristic of our time. The old idea of an absolute creation of all life in the world lost hold during the upheaval of the French Revolution; and it was a French student who first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully...