Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct...
Match B. - Open to all - 10 Blue Rocks, 5 angles, 18 yards rise...
Match A. - Open to all - 10 clay pigeons, straightaway, 21 yards rise...
Match C. - Open only to non-first-prize winners and freshmen - 10 clay pigeons, 5 angles, 18 yards rise...
...causes that led to the phenomenal rise from 520 on, the lecturer proposes to investigate at the next lecture...