Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said against it. Graduate students have not, as a rule, the time to give to athletics which the captaincy of a team demands. Even if they had time it is much better that the captains of the teams should come from the college, for the college is the real centre of the athletic activity. We look upon this decision of the committee with regard to undergraduate captains, as another step along the line of that sensible legislation in athletic affairs which Harvard has done so much to forward in recent years. The gratitude of the University...
...Closson, Jr., '92, on "The Unemployed in American Cities." At this time, when the whole country is still in such financial difficulty, and so many thrown out of employment, a subject of this sort is of especial interest. Mr. Closson has gone to great pains to find the real conditions of the unemployed classes in all the great cities in the United States. Most of his information has been obtained from some three hundred replies received to a circular of inquiry sent to public officials and other citizens of all cities in the United States of over twenty thousand inhabitants...
...some every detail stands out, while to others only the general effect of massing is apparent. So in sketching as in astronomy there is always a personal equation. The object of a sketch is, all painters agree, the presentation of truth, to make a picture exactly like the real. Embellishments from the painter's imagination not only are never needed but always spoil a painting. Nature is itself beautiful enough...
...work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...must be set by those interested in Christ's work. To be really successful in this, men must convince themselves of the close communion of man with God, and of the possibility of realizing religious truth in one's life. We must be convinced that the realization is the real business of our life, and that all of our work is a part of our religion. There are no superfically religious duties. Everything we do, we do for Christ's sake...