Word: detail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...step in the right direction. To be sure the advisability of having a course in general history, like History X. or XI., count, while History VIII., which deals mainly, if not entirely, with political and legal institutions, may well be questioned. This, however, is but a question of detail and in no way affects the merit of the plan of having honor courses more general in their nature. Now that a beginning has been made in this direction there is one other honor course which might well be established and which would certainly lead to good results. There are many...
...both the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Weekly. It should have a few carefully drawn illustrations so as not to make it of too sober or of too literary a cast; but, above all, its object should not be to contain "funny sketches." There are several points in the detail of the plan which I will briefly consider...
...object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with...
...America by engravings of his works, is represented in an idyllic subject, called "L'Amour et les Deux Jeunes Filles aux Bains." Ziem and Frere, the painters of Oriental scenes, have some good work. Desgoffe, foremost among the Parisian still life painters, is seen in a delicate piece of detail, a pot of azaleas, with a background of rich and elegant draperies. Lastly, an Angel, in whose face the soft lines and subdued color indicate purity and a life devoid of earthly pleasure, awakes a profound feeling, made more profound by the fact that it is painted by Cabanel, better...
...Sargent yesterday began his course of lectures at the gymnasium with "Physical Examinations." He insisted on the necessity of physical training, and then explained in detail his system of physical examinations and measurements, by which he was able to prescribe special exercises for each individual, which would strengthen a man's physique in those points in which he was weak. Different persons needed different treatment, and in our gymnasium are machines of all kinds (principally of the doctor's invention) which are adapted for every physical detail. The doctor gave the weights and measurements of some of our notable athletes...