Word: perfectness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sargent has in view a scheme to place on exhibition at the World's Fair two bronze castings. These castings are to represent masculine figures, ideally perfect in their physical proportins. The plans have not yet been perfected and as the scheme is still a visionary one nothing definite can be said about it. W. C. Noble the famous portrait statue artist, who now has a studio in Cambridge, will prepare the figures...
...considered his masterpiece. The theme of this great work is carried again and again into the minutest details and repeated by all the parts of the orchestra. The fabric is composed of the most intricate interweaving of part into part, yet all so skillfully that the effect of a perfect whole, a complete idea, is left with the hearer...
...selection "Aase's Death" from Grieg's Suite, "Peer Gynt," the orchestra showed itself in its best form. This whole work is full of exceedingly odd chords and combinations of chords, and the time and tune were perfect. It may be taken as an evidence of skill in a violinist for instance, that he can play a discord when it is demanded, for to the true musician this is as hard as it is easy for the unskilled. In "Peer Gynt" there are several of these well placed discords and their rendering last night was an evidence of the greatness...
...library reading room; this is a university need. The college wants cheap dormitories, a new dining hall, and money could be well spent in enlarging and improving Hemenway gymnasium. The Lawrence Scientific School, in the healthy growth of which we are all interested, needs money to enlarge and perfect its equipment, especially to establish departments in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering. The Graduate School, which is growing into one of the strongest departments of the University, needs more scholarships and fellowship. The number of students in the Law School has become so large that the capacity of the present building...
...Cummin have not had much experience in rowing. McKay has not as yet shown up very promisingly. Frost has never rowed before and it is too early to tell yet what he can do. Ganson is one of the ten strongest men in college but is not altogether in perfect form and is suffering severely from a lame shoulder received at foot ball. Johnson who has been rowing regularly till within a few days when he was taken seriously ill, is very heavy and strong and when he is able to get out again will prove a valuable addition...