Word: crude
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evident, then, that our condition is extremely crude and unsatisfactory; that some change must be made in order to harmonize and centralize our forces. With this important end in view, I have to propose the following plan: That the one of the existing clubs which maintains the highest standard of debating be recognized as the chief debating body of the University, and accept its position without arrogance; that the other acknowledge itself subordinate to the first; that the first take in immediately all the members of the latter who are up to its standard; that other subordinate debating clubs...
...work of the best artists of this time is in general harsh and severe. There are no soft color effects but the greatest productions are masterpieces of construction and line work. The coloring is usually far from pleasing, it seems even as if the artists had tried to give crude color effects as increasing the severity of the composition...
...first question to be solved, and it is a decidedly hard question to answer. Beauty is that quality which is constituted in rich, easy flowing lines,- the outline of the human figure, for example; but the picturesque is that subtle quality which results from nature's perfecting the crude attempts of man to produce beauty...
...poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond them. He was like the Romantic poets, too, in the fact that it was to nature he turned to find escape from the crude actualities of every-day life; and it is probably through his share in the great Romantic work of spiritualizeing nature that he will be most enduringly influential...
...best set of men, but has been unfortunate, in that several men have been sick, or otherwise in trouble. The crew is rather crude in its work. It is weak in the waists of the boat. Order: Stroke, Bond; 7, Johnson; 6, Williams; 5, Saltonstall; 4, Loring, 3, Davis; 2, Thompson; bow, Hechscher...