Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following the crews on the Thames with any degree of critical interest. In the week just finished, the Harvard crew has not made rapid strides towards that perfection of stroke at which every crew aims, but slow though noticeable improvements are evident. Though the watermanship is still manifestly inferior to Yale's, it has improved markedly in a week...
Unfortunately, Gorgona died young. His work, however, though inferior to that of Titian, perhaps influenced the latter. Calm in mood, dignified in conception, Titian is the embodiment of excellence in painting. He made no attempt to express the inexpressible, but was rather the portrayer of humanity. For ninety-nine years he lived in full possession of his powers, combining a perfect mastery of his art with a wide knowledge of nature. It is generally not permissible to call an artist the best there has been, but if anyone deserves the superlative, it is Titian...
Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...
...been superior to it. The exhibit not only eclipses all previous efforts of the Camera Club itself, and of all similar clubs in Cambridge, but it is, by competent photograph and art critics who are not connected with the University in any way, pronounced to be in no way inferior to the exhibits of the Boston Camera Club...
...Harvard team. The H. A. A. was invited to have a class team race on the night of the championships, but the authorities felt that as all the good men would be wanted in the open events and as no class would wish to be represented by inferior men, it would be unwise to accept...