Word: artistical
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...would master his own calling must, like an artist, step back and look at his work from a distance before applying himself to it again. Thus he would be conforming with the rhythm of life. Many men have no aim in life but are indifferent to all surroundings. In such a life a business would become a pleasure. Among the most disinteresting persons are those who seek nothing but pleasures; these then avoid the law; they become the most uncomfortable and most unhappy persons we know...
...Frank Millet '69, who is the artist chosen to superintend the decoration of the interior of the World's Fair buildings, began his art studies while attending Harvard...
...rather rambling article on the conditions which surround a Florentine artist, a careful paper with which Frederic Crowninshield concludes his "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome," another instalment of Mrs. Burnett's "The one I knew best of all," two pieces of fiction "To her" and "How the Battle was Lost," and finally a pair of sonnets, make up the rest of this not very brilliant number...
Among the graduates whose faces appear in the picture are Capt. Robert J. Cook, George Adee. Walter Camp, Chauncey Depew, Beecher. Stagg, and a score of others. The artist is Howland of New York, brother of Judge Howland, who is a member of the Yale corporation...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...