Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been unusually active thus far this year, owing to a great extent to the impetus given to this work by the visit of Professor Drummond. Delegations have been sent out nearly every Sunday. Several Yale men spoke at Princeton last Sunday, returning the visit of the Princeton delegation. Between thirty and forty representatives from Yale attended the recent intercollegiate Y. M. C. A. convention at Boston and report a very enjoyable and profitable session...
...welfare if the plan is to be successful. Daily practice, games played away from home, and above all, a strong directing hand are necessary for its successful existence. Lack of practice and a state of chronic indifference, are the reasons why the class games have been useless, as far as the formation of material for the 'Varsity nine is concerned...
...Secretary will, as far as time and opportunity permit, seek to secure the desired employment for all whose records justify an effort in their behalf. Those who wish to make application may obtain blanks at the office for the purpose...
...student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles of art than the readings of columns can convey; if the two methods of reading and practical study of illustration are combined, rapid advance is possible. The library of the University is poverty striken as far as classical and contemporary art is concerned. Of artists now living or of those belonging to the last generation, there is not a trace. Classic art is represented only by a few wood cuts and copies of drainings. The deficiency in modern art might be supplied to some extent...
...great want, therefore, as suggested by the writer of above-mentioned letter, is a collection of illustrations of the masters which can be used by all students. Copies and engravings are far too valuable to be available for such a collection, but photography has supplied the means of forming a comparatively cheap, yet none the less useful collection of pictures. Colleges much smaller than Harvard have begun the collection of pictures, and consequently art is better taught in these colleges than at Harvard. In no direction could steps for the improvement in methods of instruction at Harvard be more consistently...