Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to House loyalty. Squash teams there were; and informal football and basketball teams were organized for single games with Dunster's "old and traditional rival", Lowell. There is no great emphasis on House activities. The dance last night, for instance, was run in the most casual manner; nobody was urged to come. Observers will probably say that all this is just a manifestation of traditional "Harvard indifference". Whatever it is, the phenomenon exists...
...invariably ended in a stalemate. There was no assurance that the University would officially take any recognition of the complaints. This unwise thwarting of legitimate curiosity has engendered a great deal of just resentment. The delay in making these long-awaited innovations is largely the result of the unique manner in which Harvard is directed. Two units of the House Plan are in their second year of existence, and dissatisfaction with the rents charged, evident on all sides, has been recognized by the Masters. It does not speak well for the esprit de corps of the directors of the Plan...
Professor Burkhard's book, the fifteenth volume in the series "Meister der Graphik", is devoted to Burgkmair's woodcuts. The 96 illustrations have been chosen to trace the development of the artist from his early manner, still largely bound by tradition, to the complete independence and command of style shown in such works as the portraits of Jacob Fugger and Pope Julius II, and in the several series of woodcuts commissioned by the Emperer. A chronological catalogue, and a concordance supplying references to previous important works on Burgkmair, give the book especial value for students of this period; while...
Suspense is retained until the end in a manner as logical as possible for so improbable a plot. We like the clever and unobtrusive employment of local color, the same condensation of a day of terrific action, and above all the work of Douglas Fairbanks...
...painters and engravers of the dying Gothic age; and he made several journeys to Italy. In him, even earlier than in Duerer, the realization of the new spirit of the Renaissance makes its appearance; but the transition from late-Gothic ornamentation and style to a warmer, more Joyfully human manner, is attained by Burgkmair without the loss of his specifically Northern, Romantic tendencies...