Word: views
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Franconia Notch;" 26, "Sunset on Mt. Lafayette;" and 28, 29 and 30, of Mt. Osceola and the Waterville Valley, are deserving of mention. The last two show striking cloud-shadow effects. Second prize is given to H. H. Ruston, 1G. His principal picture, "Morning," number 157, is an artistic view of a hillside pasture, with clumps of hard wood trees, and a hazy distance. "A Barnyard Study," number 154, and "Sheep" and "Firelight Study," numbers 161 and 163, are also very attractive...
...Cambridge syndicate has recently purchased three adjoining parcels of land on Massachusetts Avenue, opposite Beck Hall, with a view to erecting a hotel which will cost about $300,000. The "College Inn" building, which now stands on the site, will be removed. The hotel is intended to offer accommodation to parents and friends of students, who come for a day or two, and who would otherwise seek lodgings in Boston; and also to provide for dinners and banquets. To this end the cafe will probably be made a prominent feature, and a banquet hall and private dining rooms will...
...every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus it is plain that the photographer labors at a great disadvantage because nature never composes as well as the artist who dares to transfer imaginative...
...measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John Marshall brought "a great stateman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persuasive reasoning, a great man's candor and breadth of view, and that judicial authority on the bench, allowed naturally and as of right, to a large sweet nature which all men loved and trusted...
...formed his conclusions hastily and ill-advisedly when I state that the phrase "in close touch" means, and has been interpreted, so far as I know, to mean, that my assistant is intimately acquainted with men in the Department, has worked under them for years, knows through their view, and the importance they attach to them, and is therefore in an excellent position to prepare men for their examinations. As it is experience of this sort which makes the professional tutor superior to the amateur, and causes men to demand his services, I think I have a right to advertise...