Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...evening. With suitable weather, all the performances will take place in the quadrangle, east of Sever Hall; otherwise Sanders Theatre will be used. Notices of any necessary change will be posted at the grounds, Memorial Hall and University Hall. Great care has been exercised upon the outdoor site to transform the scene into woodland illusion. This part of the arrangements has been most skilfully executed by Mr. F.L. Olmsted '94. The auditorium and entrances will be electrically lighted until the hour of the performance. The stage and actors will be made visible in all parts of the grounds by lime...
...negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard, in the class of 1897, spoke of the great educational problem in the South. The study of the industrial sciences, and especially...
...personality is that He puts Himself along with men in their doubt and scepticism, feeling for their weaknesses and sins and sympathizing as one who had himself been tempted. It is He who knows us. He is here to liberate no matter what our burdens. He comes to transform the life, to help man overcome temptation, to assist in obliterating the evils of the past. And the man who yields himself to this influence is as much transformed as one transformed by any miracle, and his greatest weakness may often become his greatest strength...
Photographs may be very beautiful, if the objects they represent are beautiful or are beautifully lighted and posed; but photography has none of the functions of creative art. Creative art consists in an interpretation of things in relation to some moral interest; it ought to transform or idealize its subject in many ways, so as to bring out its tendency or meaning. But photography, like memory, only transforms things unintentionally and because it can not help itself. The cause of any change here is a weakness in the machinery of reproduction; it cannot be an imaginative bias, since the reproduction...