Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Student. He says a brute is an imperfect...
...collection of works of art made by Mr. Moore during his recent residence in Europe. It is very unsatisfactory, and we may add unprofitable, for the art student to be obliged to study the works of masters through the medium of photographs. No conception of color and only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating and training the taste of the men in college who are interested in art, he has copied, with a faithfulness which has won Mr. Ruskin's praise...
...Cornell Review thinks that "without immutable sequence we could know nothing." The problem is to get rid of immutable sequence, and until it is solved we will have to be content with our present imperfect knowledge...
...empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request of the instructor some attention on his part to the swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions, the questions themselves should be such that they will allow time for the extra work. When the instructor looks over the books, I trust he will bear...
...discovered by experience, and if by trial it is found to demand changes, those changes must be made if it is to become permanent. The system of four distinct boat-clubs has now been established for a year and a half, and the organization is found to be so imperfect as to be threatened with complete failure unless some remedy be applied. To find by what changes the present system may be improved is the purpose of this article...