Word: mood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Most important of all things is rapidity of work. The sketch must be finished at one sitting, generally in not more than four hours. Even if the light should be the same on another day, it is impossible to expect that the mood of a painter should be just the same. So he cannot see things in just the same way. To an expert a painting done on 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...
...wind for good. This year the students feel that this crucial point has been or will be passed in safety and from this time there must be unity of spirit in students and players. Saturday's game does not immediately concern us-we are considering Springfield. The best mood for every one of us from now till the end of the game is one of determination rather than of confidence, for there can be no such thing as over determination...
This is precisely the mood which we urge the students to cultivate just at this time, for their patience and their faith in the team are soon to be put to a much harder test. Early next week the team will be decided upon, or at least a good idea of its composition will be in the minds of the authorities; work on Soldier's Field will then begin, and the actual campaign for the Springfield game will open in earnest. This work will be done in secret, behind closed gates. With this secret practice, chances for the usual crop...
Because a paper is occasionally called upon to deal harshly with college organizations college men are apt to think that adverse criticism is its typical mood; yet where a paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other...
...remaining pieces are also good. The poetry by Moody is in the same metre as "She and He," by Edwin Arnold. The editorials are in the same serious and sensible mood that characterizes the work of the Monthly as a whole...