Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University four-oar Burchard remained at 3 again today. The men had light work in the morning, but in the afternoon went fully five miles, and showed some improvement over their recent work. Lunt is fast recovering and went out in a pair-oared barge with Amberg today. Word was received today that Morgan's injury is not so serious as anticipated, and he is expected to be about again by Saturday...
Yesterday afternoon the University baseball team held its last hard practice before the Yale game tomorrow. There will be only a light practice this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Yesterday, the regular batting and fielding work was gone through, and then the men were given short practice in base-running. Particular attention was given to bunting during the batting practice...
...answer back. But Mr. Simonson is very happy in such phrases as these: "Holbein did not paint the court of Henry VIII; he painted the eternal beauties of texture in terms of English noblemen. Velasquez did not paint the court of Philip II; he painted the eternal beauties of light in terms of Spanish noblemen", and in styling Whistler "the poet of the dusk". So, too, though I disagree with Mr. Simonson's doctrine that Whistler is the single message-haven of a century of painters, I like his final sentence, "When we have seen the exquisite combinations of color...
...verse is not distinguished. Mr. Rogers's "Ride of the Hill Folk" is well told, but shows the weakness of much verse in the saga form in that it lacks story. Mr. Wheelock's "Serenade" does not show emotion; Mr. Dickerman's translation "Light" shows sensuous color, better at the beginning than the end; the fault is doubtless in the original. Mr. Reed's "Guinevere" reflects Tennyson...
YALE CREW QUARTERS, GALES FERRY, CT., June 18, 1907.--The work of all the crews was very light today, owing to the oppressive heat. In the latter part of the afternoon a gentleman's four, made up from the Yale graduates, raced one composed of Harvard graduates, and won by a length in a quarter-mile race. The university crew went downstream two miles and back, accompanied by Coach Kennedy...