Word: impressive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conscience" by Mr. Barry, as far as we know, a new contributor to the "Monthly," is a powerful story, drawn in strong lines. Devoid of all false sentimentality that is too apt to impair the value of such a story as this, the straightforward narrative cannot fail to impress the reader. The story is well conceived and well told...
...address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable mathematician, the meditative and subtile metaphysician, are all for a time united and will probably impress their distinguishing peculiarities upon the work." The noticeable characteristic of this periodical was its fertility in stories, and poetry of more than ordinary merit. Among its editors who have since attained eminence were Nathan Hale, Jr., Rufus King, and James Russell Lowell, all of the class of 1838. An amusing...
...given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings, whereby the metal got the direct impress of the modeller's hand, the inevitable influence of painting and architecture on sculptural work are to be counted...
...believe that our victories have been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with...
Sidney Willard, who was professor at Harvard from 1807 to 1831, in a passage cited by Prof. Young, refers to his small Hebrew classes, and "the general impression" that "the value of such learning does not repay the labor and pains necessary to be undergone in its requirement." Willard is cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac...