Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity crew went out yesterday afternoon at the usual time in spite of the rough water. Coach Perkins steered the shell and Dr. W. A. Brooks and Harry Keyes coached the men from the launch...
...class crews have had about five weeks of steady work on the river with the exception of a few days, when the water was too rough, and also two or three days which were taken off during the spring recess. The change form the barge to the shell has put the crews back considerably as regards time and form; '94 and '97 especially showing the change. The general averages of the crews show '94 to be the heaviest, '95 the lightest, while '96 and '97 are about equal in weight...
...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...French, to appear in the productions of the Germans also, or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, which it will not have in the literatures where it not native. A rough-and-ready critic easily credits the Germans with the Celtic fineness of tact, the Celtic nearness to Nature and her secret; but do the strokes in the German's picture of nature ever have the indefinable delicacy of charm, and perfection of the Celt's touch...
...first see the Umbrians in this rough, unpolished state, clinging to their provincial ideas of sentiment, but influenced more and more by the superior learning and technical skill of Florence. Piero Fanasca was a representative of this period. By his powerful use of outline in the human figure, for he was more of a draughts man than a painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace...