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...defends the needless slaughter of two respectable horses in the name of art, by that master craftsman Schwarz. Splendid! Bravo, brave Busch...
...velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi's Indian-summer genius. She had sung Otello for the Master himself, an old man then like a gnarled tree, kindly, restrained, with bright, bright eyes and restless hands. Yes, it was a finicky business, that of choosing the opera. Perhaps a bit from all three...
...been wiser. Yet human nature being what it is certifies the recurrence of these moments in the lives of most people. Neither the freshmen who threw eggs at a Harvard tradition or those who broke a Yale tradition are really worse than the average person. From their ranks few master crooks or mighty anarchists will arise. Young, and with the momentary desire to get the most individual fun out of life, these hedonists forgot that they were part of an organization whose name as well as their own they were sailing...
...architectural drawing. This work, however, was part of the undergraduate offering until 1906, when the Graduate School of Applied Science was established and Architecture was made one of its departments. The Bachelor's degree was made an entrance requirement and the degree awarded by the Department was that of Master in Architecture. In 1912 the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture were recognized as a separate school under the Faculty of the Graduate Schools of Applied Science. The final step in the formation of the School was taken in 1914, when the Faculty was made independent and given entire control...
...feeling of completeness, of an author writing from inside out, from the depths of the living which he has done inside the mind of the character. In one of the other stories the cold leaves us shivering, but here there is no equal heat to leave us sweltering. The master's brush has slipped, but only so that it reveals the perfection of her tones in the rest of the canvas...