Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject in every period, although the art-types were very different in the archaic age from those of later times. The series of stereopticon views used to illustrate this incident gave a good idea of the artistic progress of the vase-makers, beginning with the stiff and conventional figures of the early vases and continuing down to the time when landscape and a background were introduced. The abduction of Helen by Paris was a fruitful theme which gave rise to several beautiful representations. Pictures...
...tendencies of principles and facts discussed in the half year's work. Furthermore, the brief time in which a man surveys the work of the half year, if he has done his studying systematically, is one of the most valuable periods of his study; for it gives him an idea of the broaden and unity of what he has hitherto seen only in detail. In these two respects, I think the mid-year system of examinations have advantages which hour examinations can never supply...
...Fewkes then spoke for an hour in an informal manner, avoiding technical terms and trying to interest eve the youngest. He gave a general idea of the habits and functions of the common star-fishes found in Massachusetts Bay and on the New England coast. He then told in simple language how the animals see, and illustrated the appearance of their eyes by drawings. Then he described the way in which a star-fish eats and how he opens the shells of oysters. The various kinds of locomotion were next described and the system of suckers, or ambulacral feet shown...
...last article, "Thomas Chatterton," is a short poem of a more ambitious style than is usually attempted in college papers. There is an eastern ring in the verse and the idea is good...
...vases which relate to the later books of the Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases the two are represented as conquerors of mankind...