Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profession in the sense that the other fine arts are professions. The musician, painter, and the sculptor create with their own hands their finished art, but the architect would make a sorry show if he should build his dreams. Of all professions, he alone must depend upon others to give form and substance...
...profession; a coordination of efforts to create a work of art to fulfill a definite need within a definite cost. The mind of the architect must interpret the need from another mind, apply it to his imagination, translate the concept to other minds and direct still other hands to give it form and substance and make it fulfill the need for which, and satisfy him for whom, it was created...
...Significance. The story of two generations of Charleston "waterfront niggers" scheming and suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long process is marked off by many a high moment of comedy, tragedy, melodrama. Mamba's "my white folks" play considerable part in the book, but are important and interesting only as protectors to Mamba's daughters. The story loses force by their presence, but is the more valuable as sociology...
...clock this afternoon Professor Albert Brachet will give a lecture in the Geological Lecture Room on "Activation and Fertilization of the Egg." Professor Brachet is director of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Brussels, Belgium. His lecture, which will be given under the auspices of the Departments of Geology and Physiology, will be open to the public...
...size of the affair is what makes it remarkable. Small teas in the dormitory rooms have occurred before with some frequency; but only five or six were present at these, in contrast with the startling number at this recent event. The proctors, although they were quite willing to give permission, admitted surprise and joined with others in wondering if this is to be precedent for the transfer to Cambridge of the famous Back Bay quantity production tradition...