Word: tells
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to tell which of these two methods of painting is the better, that is, which the more accurately expresses the effects and truths of nature. Art, we are given to understand, is the exponent of the true, the good and the beautiful, but it seems very doubtful whether either the Realist or the Impressionist gives us art in his paintings...
...general idea of nature is the most important. A picture, accurate in every detail of some scene in real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture...
Among our own illustrators, Dana Gibson and Abbey often eliminate from their pictures everything but the central figures. These tell the story, and tell it well, and furniture and surroundings would add little or nothing to the effect...
...standpoint of results? The opposing side had agreed that it was independent action when the American patriots revolted from England, but it had been overlooked that it was by party organization alone that the patriots were enabled to carry out their purpose. Washington assembled an army, he did not tell every man to take his musket and fight independently. If the independents would descend from the heights of sentiment and enter vigorously into the life of some party, their work would be of much more merit...
...left very largely to the divinity students. This was before people felt that the Bible could be read and studied as simple literature. Now all this is changed, and the man who knows nothing of the stories of the Bible is as ignorant as the man who cannot tell anything about the best modern stories. It is just such classes as this one of Professor Thayer's and such courses as Semitic 12, under Professor Lyon, that are going to popularize the reading and the study of the Bible and make them a delight where once they were a burden...