Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whole exhibition offers an unusually comprehensive view of the work of this brilliant and erratic artist-writer on the side not generally so well known. Ruskin was primarily a writer, and he almost never attempted to make a real picture from the artist's point of view. His drawings in this collection, therefore, are in many cases mere studies, some very slight, mere notes with a pencil, some with bits of wash or color in places, others highly finished in wash or color though hardly any really complete...
...Professor Charles Gross ends twenty-one years of steadfast devotion to Harvard University. His labor was unremitting even in illness, when his great fortitude banished discouragement and inspired him to continue his splendid service. Thorough as was his scholarship, his genius was by no means purely academic. As a writer, he achieved fame in no mean degree; as an editor of important histories, his work was of immeasurable value; as a teacher he was admired and respected. His name stands high on the long list of men who have brought honor to Harvard...
Harvard's answers to such questions have never been uncertain. But in other parallel cases her clarity of vision seems sometimes to be dimmed. The writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant...
...terms of the will of Francis Boott '31, "An annual prize of $100 shall be awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. The competitors for the prize shall be either undergraduates or members of any graduate school of Harvard University...
Compositions must be presented to the chairman of the committee on or before March 1, 1910. The title page must bear an assumed name, and the writer must give in, with his composition, a sealed letter containing his real name and superscribed with his assumed one. The committee in charge of the competition consists of the following: W. A. Locke '69, chairman; O. Foote '74, G. A. Burdett...