Word: detail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...under the auspices of the Harvard Pedagogical Club, on "Foundations in Education." While Superintendent of Schools at Pueblo, Colorado, Mr. Search created much interest in educational circles by his success in organizing and conducting the "Pueblo plan" for primary and secondary education. This plan, which was published in detail in the "Educational Review" for February, 1894, has for its fundamental idea the conservation of the individual in the large classes necessary in our public schools. "The pupil is placed purely with reference to where he can get the most good for himself. He works as an individual, progresses...
...most extraordinary successes of the Castle Square lyric stock company is achieved this week by a magnificent presentation of "Lucia di Lammermoor." Donizetti's work is given with attention to detail and a general excellence that has never been attained in this city before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come...
...Museum is a model of one corner of the Parthenon. It is now being set up at the left of the main stairway, on a wooden support three feet high. The model itself is about five feet in height. The numerous parts have been made with great accuracy of detail and are being fitted together slowly and with great care...
...struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with all to neglect no detail, to support the captain heart and soul so that the team may line up hereafter with the spirit of "win we must and will...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by taking up in brief detail the lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak...