Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Desert Wanderings," the eighth of the "Travel Papers of Arminius," is disappointing. Perhaps the earlier papers of the series have raised our expectations too high, but this instalment certainly lacks the freshness of the earlier numbers. The workmanship, too, is careless in places, and suggests the approach of the end of the year. "We had reached the Fayoum after a long day's travel over the desert the night before," would hardly be expected on an entrance examination. D. Carb's "Ellen Terry" is a thoughtful and well-written appreciation, and R. Altrocchi's "Vaudeville" an excellent bit of satire...
Nothing is more difficult to write than drama. Mr. Sheldon has avoided part of his task, in using the quick, easy, and inconclusive stop of suicide, but up to the point where he thus drops an unfinished situation his workmanship in this most trying field is admirable. This is a case, I imagine, of decided gifts waiting for material on which to work. Travel papers are not a favorable form in which to reveal what is special to the writer. Those of Arminius show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About...
...costume will be furnished to the men who go to Washington to take part in the inaugural parade: black gowns, similar in general appearance to those worn by the Senior class, but of less expensive material, and crimson caps, of better material, and crimson caps, of better material and workmanship than those worn in the parade last fall. The caps and gowns will be ready for delivery in a few days, at a place which will be announced later. Men who wish to keep their caps and gowns will be allowed to do so on payment...
...drawings are better. Most are amusing, many well executed. The centerpiece, is perhaps misplaced, but the almanac is a bit of clever caricature, and the illustrations to an unconvincing chapter of Professor Wendell's life in Paris, as delicate and true in workmanship as they...
...Cambridge. The boxes are a hundred years old, and were made by Indians. They are ornamented with split spruce and with porcupine quills worked in colors. The Museum now owns five such boxes, and only one other museum in the country has any specimens of this rare Indian workmanship...