Word: precisionism
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Admiration for University teaching methods, facilities, and students was the keynote of Professor Morey's comments. "My observation of Harvard students," he stated, "is of course limited to those who take the courses in the history of art. These I have found to have a very interesting and rather exceptional...
Steaming out of Cristobal the fleet took up its formation with clockwork precision. In advance went the Savannah with submarines and tenders to hinder enemy reconnaissance. Next came the destroyer screen to ward off enemy submarines, followed by the Wyoming and three other battleships, constituting the scouting fleet, since we...
The Dixon-Peabody match was an upset of all predictions. The Harvard captain played an unusually steady game all the way through, leading a good deal of the time, but the state champion managed to catch up on several occasions and to force a close decision. In the first game...
Joseph Farington, R. A., was an artist of the 18th Century. Being a prominent member of the Royal Academy, though an indifferent painter, he came in touch with nearly all of the elite of his time, in France as well as in England. From July 13, 1793, to Dec. 30...
Like the "Lincoln," it is a book possessing tremendous individuality; one of those books one can never forget; and this property arises out of the sense one gets of exalted character alike in the subject and the writer, of great precision of thought and beauty of expression. I laid it...