Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sitter and dated Anno. 1637. This picture was formerly in the collection of Sir Edgar Vincent, and was exhibited in the Grafton Galleries in 1911. The brilliancy of the artist's brush work is particularly noticeable in his handling of the collar and the sleeves of his genial sitter...
...American literature since 1890, which is announced by the English Department, will interest a great many students, both within and within the department. The complaint is often heard that college courses deal too much with the past and too little with the present, and some reformers-- as the genial "Uncle Dudley" did a year ago,-- nonchalantly propose the abolition of many or all such courses. They class all thought of the past as useless learning; and forget that a large amount of intellectual capital which it would be prodigal to waste has been saved up in periods not radically unlike...
...undergraduate is a sensitive creature; he vigorously resents aspersions upon his conversation or intellectual interests. In outraged innocence he arose to condemn some recent strictures upon his table-talk. Nay, more; the Alumni Bulletin took up the gauntlet for him, and although admitting with genial indecision that there might be some ground for the charges, stated that it could not believe that "conversation had sunk, throughout an entire dining hall, to such depths as those into which the CRIMSON peers with despair...
...pages. Mr. Rhodes finds in the steadfastness, humility, and humanity of Lincoln during the dark days of our Civil War an example which may be of value to present European statesmen. The picture which he gives of Lincoln is intimate, kindly yet critical, and suffused with a genial humor. The address should receive a place in the row of classics numbered among previous Phi Beta Kappa orations...
...printed schedule of what may be worn and what may not be worn may be obtained by approaching K. Bromley '16, the genial secretary of the Union, who is sure to have one in his pocket. Guests are warned that they must be respectful to Union attendants, and always use "Sir" or "Madam"--as the case may be--in addressing them. This is insisted on by the committee, after a long conference last night, a flash-light reproduction of which appears in this morning's CRIMSON...