Word: background
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...
...will be the great attraction. The examples of the success of the new method are numerous. Who has not observed the breathless interest with which the entrance of any procession on the stage is now greeted? Perhaps it is the solemnity, the grandeur of a marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head...
...college so large as Harvard there is often times a tendency for naturally strong athletic men to keep themselves too much in the background. This arises from the fact that among so large a number each one thinks there are many better men than himself to conduct the various interests of the college, and he of course feels duty bound not to put himself forward. Foot-ball will be the object of main interest for sometime to come. Let every man who has ever played the game show himself upon Holmes Field prepared to engage in the practice games...
...wish to be loved, you must have some one to love you; but here they all wish to be loved and have no time for loving, and consequently they are not so comfortable with one another as others who are sometimes, perhaps infrequently, willing to shove "self" into the background. My dear fellow, if you want to make friends, and make them rapidly, pursue the acquaintances you make this evening. Let them talk to you, sympathize with them, love them, or try to, and you will become the most popular man in the room. Ask the young woman to send...
...represented in an idyllic subject, called "L'Amour et les Deux Jeunes Filles aux Bains." Ziem and Frere, the painters of Oriental scenes, have some good work. Desgoffe, foremost among the Parisian still life painters, is seen in a delicate piece of detail, a pot of azaleas, with a background of rich and elegant draperies. Lastly, an Angel, in whose face the soft lines and subdued color indicate purity and a life devoid of earthly pleasure, awakes a profound feeling, made more profound by the fact that it is painted by Cabanel, better known to us by such works...