Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Phillips Brooks House will be open daily from 9 a. m. to 12.30 p. m., and 6.30 to 8 p. m. The recess will bring about no interruption in the Brooks House teas and the next one will be held on Friday afternoon...
...Wetmore, president of the Harvard Club of New York, then presented the boat house to the University and expressed the hope that it will foster a spirit and develop a skill that will bring to Harvard many victories in rowing. The determination and perseverance characteristic of Harvard are typified in the building of the present boat house on the ashes of the one burned last Christmas, and the gift of the New York alumni is a demonstration of the friendship and enthusiasm which Harvard alumni feel for Harvard institutions...
...objects they represent are beautiful or are beautifully lighted and posed; but photography has none of the functions of creative art. Creative art consists in an interpretation of things in relation to some moral interest; it ought to transform or idealize its subject in many ways, so as to bring out its tendency or meaning. But photography, like memory, only transforms things unintentionally and because it can not help itself. The cause of any change here is a weakness in the machinery of reproduction; it cannot be an imaginative bias, since the reproduction is by a machine...
...follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people of the earth, then in darkness, but only partly succeeds; and in the end ruins himself. Out of this myth has been developed a philosophical back ground for the poem, having as its theme the thought that, when people make an effort to better...
...photographs are interesting especially as records of college life and many of them are also of real artistic worth. The pictures of the Yard given by W. B. Swift '01, were taken when the trees were bare of leaves, and the camera was so placed as to bring in the outlines of the branches with striking effect. The pictures of Hollis and Stoughton, of Memorial and of the Johnston Gate are especially beautiful...