Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Three new shells have been ordered for the use of the 'varsity crew. Davy is to build a cedar boat. It will be constructed on a lighter and slightly narrower model than his former boats and will probably weigh, when completed, in the neighborhood of 200 pounds. Waters is at work on a paper shell which will be very much the same sort of a boat as that used by the '92 'varsity crew. The third shell is being built in Enland by Ruff, the builder who supplies the Oxford crews. This boat will be brought over here as soon...
First of all American illustrators stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...every feature was under perfect control, and it was this that enabled him to be his best characters rather than to act them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were his mother tongue. It is not pessimistic to say that they will never be given so again. All these, however, were qualities of the exterior. He would not have been...
...most valuable set is a series of maps and models comprising part of the exhibit of the geographical service of the French army. One of the models was the best of its kind exhibited at the fair. It is of a review used by the officers of the French army for the study of military evolutions. While Harvard has had to share part of the exhibit with the U. S. Coast Survey, she is fortunate in getting this model, as it is the only one possessed by a non-military institution...
Florence is a better model for us to follow than France, for in Florence this educational process is supported by many individuals and not by the state, as in France. This system is nothing more than an education in patriotism,-it teaches the lesson of intellectual development with brush and crayon...