Word: slenderness
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Polycritus made a figure of rather a short square pattern which became the canon used on the coins and vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous...
...celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company of foot soldiers, whose antique swords and oral shields call Walter Scott vividly to mind. A group of little children, clad in white, and with wreaths of flowers on their heads, go by singing...
...century ago, the necessary expenses of a college course have certainly not increased in any such ratio. Indeed, of late years the cost of board at New Haven and Cambridge has been reduced, and the co-operative principle has been applied in other ways to the great advantage of slender purses. At the Springfield meeting was cited the case of a father who sent one son to Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison...
...uniforms bearing designations pecular to class teams. He at once remarks upon the great size of our athletic organizations. He is much surprised, however, when he is informed that the beautiful display of crimson letters and figures is not a mark of distinction, but a badge of 'varsity. The slender figure proudly bearing the talismanic figure '89 is not that of a champion of eighty-nine's contests against the blue, but is simply that of - a freshman. We might even invade the sacred precincts of eighty-eight and comment upon the delicate design of some of the illegitimate devices...
...have obtained our higher ends, however, at the cost of comfort and convenience, our slender means having been expended upon the intellectual rather than the material needs of the institution. We have been crowded into four small hired rooms, never snfficient for our purpose either in point of space, ventilation, or general accommodation, and these rooms we have now wholly outgrown...