Word: loafered
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...often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist of to-day from standing out as did the masters of old. We do not know our great men. In art we want the work of the great artist pointed out to us. We love Routine...
Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...
Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...
...opening of the season." The Courant is at present exchanging compliments with the Record, as witness the following: "When we turn to the exchanges our surprise all vanishes as we see the students of Cornell characterized as 'muckers and slums,' and language used which would befit only a loafer or a tramp...
...sound scholarship. There has been a steady increase, for the past few years, in the number of those who go into these examinations; and it is by no means impossible that a time will soon come when to graduate without honors will be as much a sign of a loafer as to take them now is the sign of having done hard work. Many a man graduates at present without honors who has made excellent use of his time during the four years of his course. There can be no doubt that the standard of the University would be raised...