Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...love with her, and has come to ask for her hand at ten in the morning. Pontbicket threatens to kick Dardard out. But he is not to be put off, and, to conciliate the father, offers to buy 40,000 pairs of his gloves. Pontbicket at once changes his manner and agrees to everything. Dardard goes out to make arrangements for furnishing the apartments, but when he comes back he finds Pontbicket ready to kick him out again. Colardeau, a simple old friend of Pontbicket's has been engaged to his daughter for sometime, and naturally objects to Dardard...
...suggestion of the Harvard Athletic Committee. This paper takes up football training and gives some interesting additional observations on the crew squad. Though one could well wish that a topic such as this, which interests so many, had been treated in a less technical and more popular manner, the results given make good reading. It is conclusively shown that no ill effects which can reasonably be attributed to training were to be discovered nine months after stopping the training...
...their literary results, have nowhere else been so carefully studied. On the other hand, Professor Wendell fails to understand Thoreau and Emerson. Grouping Thoreau with Alcott under the lesser men of Concord is clearly a lapse of judgment. The subject of transcendentalism is also handied in a somewhat superficial manner. The spirit of Emerson is also missed, perhaps because of over-emphasis on the "Yankee" element in Emerson. Mr. John J. Chapman is, on the whole, a surer critic of the Concord prophet...
...England movement as renascent is very illuminating. It helps one to understand what, at a superficial glance, is very puzzling:--that is,--why the great writers of America should have been all New Englanders and of about the same generation. This and kindred topics are treated in a manner wonderful for its fine sanity...
...Architectural subjects in France and in Flanders, and are all admirable examples of picturesque architectural delineation. There is also an early water color drawing by Turner, a view of a gentleman's country-seat with wooded grounds, which is an unusually fine example of Turner's early manner. These drawings are now hung on the south wall of the large gallery together with others by various masters of the early English water color school which had been previously acquired. In addition to these, ten drawings by Ruskin are temporarily hung on the same wall. The drawings date from different epochs...