Word: richards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Between $50,000 and $100,000, the exact amount has not yet been determined, has been left to Yale by the will of Richard S. Ely, to found professorships in the academic, law and medical departments...
There is hardly any individuality which is not worth the closest study. Every character has its own atmosphere, and as an actor divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given...
...Richard Henry Dana was introduced by President Eliot to speak of the way of securing Civil Service Reform. He gave many illustrations of particular cases in explanation of the general method adopted, which is that of careful examination in all branches of the service. It has been objected to this that the examinations could not be adequate, and would be easily passed by young and inexperienced men. Such is far from being the case. The questions asked are invariably such as need experience and special fitness to answer them, as is amply proved by the fact that almost without exception...
Address. The Necessity of Civil-Service Reform and the Way to Secure It. Mr. Moorfield Storey and Mr. Richard Henry Dana. Sanders Theatre...
Address. The Necessity of Civil-Service Reform and the Way to Secure It. Mr. Moorfield Storey and Mr. Richard Henry Dana. Sanders Theatre...