Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look, said he, back upon the life of the ancient Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit...
Work began in Asos in 1881 and in consequence of the success of the adventure an American school was established at Athens. The students, thirty in number, come in direct contact with the work of the great masters and no more broadening influence can be exerted on men than being present with these ancient works of art. The French school is a marked example of this. The students returning thoroughly interested in their work have influenced the whole French system of education. The Athenian school is a centre from which men may start in their researches, and Athens itself...
...will subscribe. In five years she has hadthree directors and one chairman in the society. The Ins itute is working hard to secure the required amount of some $80,000, and if they do not succeed in the next six weeks the United States will have lost a great opportunity to gain glory and respect...
...system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half our energy for work, and are of course beaten. What we want is "a little more pluck and persistency," and a great deal more work...
...that the promised improvements which were to result from the new janitor system are a delusion and a snare, the second editorial strikes a responsive chord. The better service which we have all summer been persuading ourselves we were to have this year has not yet materialized. And a great many of us miss the old janitors; they understood our ways better than these new comers, and we resent a change which has not conduced in the least to our comfort or convenience...