Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Suzerainty was the basis of the English claims, and the arguments before introduced by Princeton on this point had not been met or refuted...
...lecture last night before the Camera Club, spoke on "How design may enter into Photography." He said that one who aspires to become an artist in photography should consider three things: The light and shadows falling upon the picture; the rhythmic relationship existing between its parts; and the central point of balance; by observing these principles, harmony and symmetry will be introduced into the design, and the picture will be made consistent with nature...
...writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey...
...present year is characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school...
...proper has not increased, that it has in fact decreased, and that the danger of complete co-education at Harvard exists no more today than it has in previous years. Professor Byerly dismisses as a test the admission of Radcliffe students in the Graduate School. He admits the second point raised by Professor Wendell: the professors lecture at Radcliffe for salaries when they might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results of their original research with pecuniary profit to themselves, he has only to make...