Word: classical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With Mr. Everett there was none of this personality. He had great personal beauty and the most perfectly attuned classic manner. It is possible for you to form a very good conception of him by the law of negatives from the person and oratory of his son, Wm. Everett. Mr. Everett always made the most careful preparation for his speeches and would arrange his watch or glass with the utmost nicety...
...Hall, Boston, on the evenings of Feb. 17, 18, 19, and 20, are of especial interest to Harvard men, for the cast is made up almost entirely of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Although the cast is composed wholly of men, the play is to be given seriously, as a classic; and the demand that has come for a matinee performance on the twentieth for children shows that older people are not the only ones interested...
...music for the songs in the play has been composed by L. Thompson '92. The idea of giving "Alice in Wonderland" as a classic is Mr. Hooker Abbott's, and he is in charge of the performances. The acting manager is Gilbert, who for a year or two has trained the performers in the Hasty Pudding Club theatricals...
...between the motives that actuated the art of the Middle ages and those actuating the art of the Renaissance. Religious faith was the dominant note and the inspiration of mediaeval art; on the other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial...
Columbia University is to have a new boathouse which will cost $15,000. It is to be erected on the Hudson river, and will be of classic style with colonial front...