Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part a gift from Mr. Tarbell who, in token of esteem for Dean Briggs and from his respect for the University, generously consented to do the work for the sum raised. Mr. Tarbell is one of the foremost portrait painters of the country, belonging to the famous group called "The Ten American Painters." His pictures have been honored at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the Chicago World's Fair...
...last night only 301 pictures of 1914 men had been taken. The last day for taking them is March 14 and it is therefore necessary that all Seniors who have not yet had pictures taken should do so at once, especially those men who were named in the first group and who should have had their pictures in last Saturday. In order to facilitate the work of the committee the proofs should be chosen and sent in at once...
...first group is composed of the old ethical type of teachers, men of great intellectual distinction, but whose ways of teaching were more partisan than those of today. The most famous man, and real representative of this group, was Mark Hopkins, former president of Williams College. He had the secret of subtle power which the leading writers and great men of that day tried in vain to analyze. With his skill in handling individual men and his direct impressive methods of teaching he truly represented the old-fashioned dignity, simplicity, and reverence which pervaded the class room in the early...
...conclusion Professor Perry observed the perfect types of new French scholarship which have added infinite grace, charm, and beauty of expression to modern speech. In this group are Croiset, Canson, Le Franc, Baldensperger, and Legouis. "There is something inexplicable in the gift of speech," he said, "something as rare as the gift of poetry. And the art of teaching, like that of speaking, is more or less a mystery which requires deep analysis,--a sort of trade which we are all endeavoring to follow...
...both for the benefit of future classes and the relief of any present classes which have seen in it a return to the old subscription method of choosing athletic managers. Its basis is competition. The finance committee of twenty-five men is divided into a general chairman and four groups of six men each. The members of each of these groups compete among themselves for chairmanship of their group, and the four groups then compete with one another for final standing. The allotments of the twenty-five or so men to be collected from by each members of the committee...