Word: talents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unworthy to have even an existence at Harvard. In the second place, it ought to be clearly recognized that any disorder on such an occasion would do Harvard an immense amount of harm. The audience will be a very cultured one, assembled out of admiration for the highest artistic talent of the stage, and the spirit of gentlemanliness will never be more called for. The occasion will be unique and delightful,- one whose memory will long remain with us. Not even the rashest among us can fail to see how very unfortunate it would be if such an occasion should...
...freshman musical organizations have begun the year under peculiarly favorable circumstances. The members possess a considerable amount of talent which, however, will require much practice and training before it can be brought into shape for the spring concerts...
Composition, Mr. Smith said, is the most expressive and pleasing arrangement upon canvas of the details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting...
...Booth's characters that it was his best, but it is safe to class under this head Iago, Hamlet and King Lear from Shakespeare, and Richelieu and Bertuccio from the other plays in which he acted. In each of these parts he showed his talent to the best advantage; and the fact that he could be so wonderfully successful in his representation of such widely different characters is perhaps the best testimony to the perfection to which he carried...
...opposed to the notion that we must have a strictly American art. Though an American may in his study abroad take foreign landscapes for his subjects, he is still American in his art. Any national art is the sum total of what the natives may assimilate by their talent. So one will remain an American in his art. No one has any style of art entirely to himself. Raphael and Michael Angelo, though giants of their time, were not alone. They borrowed from the great masters before them. If one is only a link in the chain of artists...