Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting is told. If this law is not strictly observed, and if the object which is second or third in importance is made in the greatest contrast of color...
...second meeting will be a ladies' day. It will be devoted to light gymnastics of some sort. On account of the fact that two meetings are crowded into one, some events must be omitted. It has not been definitely decided just what events will be contested. There was last night a meeting of men interested in gymnastics, in order to find out in what events there are likely to be entries. Men appeared for the horizontal bar, parallel bars, tumbling, and rope climbing. Unless more men enter, however, some of these events will be given up for a potato race...
...Harvard Union for finally securing the promise of a lecture by Mr. Irving. Mr. Irving's decision will be looked upon with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about...
...Winchester Donald, D. D., preached in Appleton Chapel last evening from the text, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path...
...without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...