Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would also offer you the prizes in life which all men crave, for I would paint the pictures in true, warm colors and thus win you to the true faith--I mean the conviction that life is happiest for the man whose every faculty is well developed...
...Thursday night, Lower Massachusetts was entered and the desks, benches and some books were besmeared with white paint, which was removed, however, with little trouble. No great damage was done...
...committee on President Eliot's portrait has definitely decided to have an oil painting instead of a bust. Mr. John Sargent, R. A., will paint the portrait if it is possible to secure his services. The necessary funds were subscribed by the undergraduates in conjunction with the graduates resident in Boston and New York and the Harvard Clubs of Philadelphia and Chicago...
...Thursday night the College Library was broken into. All but one of the busts in the Reading Room were defaced with brown paint, some of the chairs were daubed with white paint, and the Superintendent's chair and lamp and the face of the clock also received a coat of paint. Broken eggs were left on the Superintendent's desk, and paint was spilled liberally about the floor. On one of the tables and on the window the words "Med. Fac." were scrawled in paint. Most of the damage was repaired before the Library opened in the morning...
...years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola is in this an artist, his novels have qualities which are all artistic; they are well planned and therefore classical; he is classic in the delineation of his characters, which are not mere individuals, but general types...