Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to its prestige as the oldest of American universities, Harvard has always been recognized as the one large institution of higher education where all individual social units minimize their own importance and influence in the interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations...
...Brancusi Fiori and Faggi are also on show. The work of Brancusi is so eccentric that it has caused a furore among artistic circles wherever it has been shown. His work is so unusual, in fact, that the stolid customs officials of New York City, untrained in the finer points of the new style, refused to admit several of his statues exempt from customs as works of art. Art was art, they maintained, but not these monuments...
...unsatisfied with Goethe and Shakespeare and Professor Howard, he can still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...
Besides notebooks, unmailed letters, jottings, reviews, novels, plays and much plastic work of his hands, he left himself in people. Education in Iowa is finer because of him. Floyd Dell, his onetime gardener, is partly his work. The sea soughed in the piles and spouted up through the planks of the wharf on the first night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek...
...since there is to be a memorial and since that memorial is to be placed in the Yard all opposing exceptions dwindle. Nothing is so destructive as quibbling over a subject whose nature is as dignified as inartificial--and as intangible--as is this. There is something greater and finer than quarrels as to place, plans and particulars--and no reasoning that such quarrels are necessary for perfection can destroy the basic truth of this statement...