Word: pleasingness
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Composition, Mr. Smith said, is the most expressive and pleasing arrangement upon canvas of the details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the...
In painting a picture there is but one line to be observed, which runs horizontally through the middle of the picture, and on this line may be placed every object which can please or attract the eye. Often the placing of an object three-quarters of an inch below or...
thirty and finished in white marble and plaster. A handsome memorial has been placed on one side of the room dedicated to Eugene F. Baker '77, captain and organizer of Yale's first victorious football team. On the walls are suspended thirty-six flags which serve as trophies in rowing...
The College Kodaks have been supplanted by "Atrabilia. Being stray leaves from the note book of a cynic who reformed on attaining his majority." The change in the name is interesting, but the ten "stray leaves" do not show any marked improvement over the Kodaks. Though none of them attempt...
The remaining two contributions are in lighter vein,- "A Virginian," by Henry Copley Greene, and "A Story with an Immoral," by Charles M. Flandrau. Of these, the latter is decidedly the best, perhaps gaining some-what by contrast with the only other piece of fiction, but at least showing clever...