Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every inducement has been offered to make the course popular. Formerly, students who took drill received credit for two hours. Now but one hour's credit is given, and only five applicants for the course appeared at the beginning of the term. The officer in charge will probably hand in his resignation at once...
...exactly what a successful business career demands of him, namely, adaptability. If a man here at Harvard, for instance, lives his life like a rational being; if he learns something from books but more from men; if he disciplines himself to the proper degree and, on the other hand, gives himself sufficient amusement to cultivate the light, buoyant side of his nature, he cannot but come out with the ability to meet men well, to think and to talk clearly, in short, to 'fit in' to any set of conditions-the quality of adaptability...
...said that there were two schools which are at the present time engrossing the thoughts of the artistic world,- the Realist and the Impressionist Schools. Realism is nothing more than detailism, the painting with the greatest possible technical accuracy of every feature of the subject in hand; while Impressionism is something not to be found in the sky above, the earth beneath, or the water below the earth; it is the generalizing, the expressing of merely the salient features of the subject...
...reminds men of the all-importance of the subject of religion; but men should not allow themselves to be carried away by their feelings of charity as some Americans have been who have supposed themselves to be converted to Mohamedanism and Buddhism. On the other hand, some Christians consider it in the light of a detriment to their own religion if any of the good qualities of other religions are pointed...
...permanent memorial to Frank Bolles will be a beautiful tribute to a beautiful spirit that worked among us like a right hand without the left hand's knowing its action...