Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business man? In business today everything goes with a rush and the man who cannot adapt himself, at a minute's notice to any combination of circumstances falls out of the race. If a man knows men, knows their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably never have succeeded any better...
...different days is a perfect almanac. So the artist must work quickly. His strokes must be accurate and he must know that they are right. Such little details as time of day, temperature, season of the year, and locality always are as 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...
...Addison then read a few words and offered a prayer. A solo by Master Willie Macdonald, and again the audience rose as the choir sung "Hark, Hark my Soul," and the procession moved slowly down the aisle. Then with the deep harmonies of Beethoven's funeral march, the people went quietly away, having paid the last tribute to the man whom so many had found a friend...
...membership of the Sparring Club has reached the limit of 50. The club includes nearly all the good boxers in college and several of the men are already training for coming winter bouts. Mr. J. R. Daielson has been engaged as boxing master...
Four courses of free public evening lectures on art are to be given this winter, the aim being to add to the historical treatment of art the finished treatment of professional experts. The lecturers will be Messrs. Edwin H. Blashfield, artist and master of decorative art in its highest sense; Thomas Hastings, of the firm of Carrere and Hastings, architects, who are designers-among other large building-of the hotels at St. Augustine, Florida; F. Hopkinson Smith, a noted illustrator for the magazines, and Professor John C. Van Dyke, the art critic and lecturer, of Rutgers College...