Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impression, to some every detail stands out, while to others only the general effect of massing is apparent. So in sketching as in astronomy there is always a personal equation. The object of a sketch is, all painters agree, the presentation of truth, to make a picture exactly like the real. Embellishments from the painter's imagination not only are never needed but always spoil a painting. Nature is itself beautiful enough...
...plain in the work of a master as they would be to a man standing where the artist stood. Enthusism is invaluable. A man must be in love with his subject and must really long to tell other people the beauty of what he sees. With a feeling like this a painter cannot help giving his pictures life and truth...
...Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Company, delivered a lecture last night, before a large audience, on "The Progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of today." Mr. Lockwood said that the first appearance of the telephone in anything like its present shape was in 1876, when a very simple apparatus, which could transmit a few words and phrases, was placed on exhibition at the Centennial Exhibition by its inventor, Mr. Alexander Graham Bell. The first form was what is known as the magneto telephone, which consisted of an electro magnet at each end of the line in front...
...illustrator that we have ever had in this country. He is always ready to adapt himself to circumstances and he is always good humored. He has no prejudices but is thoroughly cosmopolitan. For this reason his pictures are always true to life. We have in his work no slips like that Doret made when in a painting he filled the streets of London with Frenchmen. Reinhart seems always to catch the characteristic feature of his subject and he invariably makes it very easy to recognize just what he means...
These arrangements will doubtless be ratified very soon by the college. The change is one that will put all athletics in the college on a firmer basis, and provides for a more business-like supervision of the finances of the various athletic associations...