Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very cultured one, assembled out of admiration for the highest artistic talent of the stage, and the spirit of gentlemanliness will never be more called for. The occasion will be unique and delightful,- one whose memory will long remain with us. Not even the rashest among us can fail to see how very unfortunate it would be if such an occasion should be marred in even the slightest way. Every act must be in harmony with Mr. Irving's own spirit...
...taken the family of Bougon Macquart and carried them on through one book after another in all their adventures, a thing which no writer since Balsac has attempted, and by this means he gives a back-ground of the world and time which most modern French writers fail...
...tank, daily runs, and exercise on the chest-weights and with dumb-bells. The first crew is doing fairly well, but there is a noticeable lack of interest about the second crew that is deplorable. They show a tendency to shirk their work and many of them fail to finish on the daily runs. However, the fact that they rowed the full stroke yesterday for the first time accounts in a measure for their general unsteadiness and irregularity. Both the crews dip too deep and the men do not seem to realize how delicately balanced an oar is, and that...
...subject which probably gives the architect the greatest trouble is taste. Depending as it does on the feelings of the different clients, it cannot fail to become mainly a personal question and consequently rest on prejudices. The remedy for this evil lies in the education of the world at large, for if more traditions were firmly stamped on the minds of the young, there would be fewer excentricities when they become more mature...
There is no reason why we should desert the Renaissance style, for this we can adopt to our needs as other centuries have to theirs, but as soon as we endeavor to imitate former styles we fall out of touch with our own era, and therefore fail of accomplishing the main object of modern architecture, the union of art with architecture in representing the feelings of the times...