Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...accordingly a mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory or history is bad. These pleasing changes, being mechanically caused, are mere illusions, and the pleasure we can take in them is shallow. Photographs should aim at being true, but there is no limit to the beauty and interest which photographs may have, in the same way in which real people and things may have beauty...
...great danger in this gospel of emotion is that we shall mistake sentimentality for true feeling. Sentiment is always reserved and unconscious; sentimentalism is self-conscious and shallow, with an eye only for the picturesque. Emotion must not be overdone, but without it our lives would be cold and spiritless...
...shell designed for the University crew by Mr. Clinton H. Crane was tried for the first time yesterday afternoon. The boat is finer at the bow, wider in the stern, and much more shallow than those built on the old model. The shell is not expected to have extraordinary speed. But it was calculated that if the lines could be made some-what finer without rendering the boat correspondingly unsteady an increase of speed amounting to a couple of seconds in the mile would result. In yesterday's trial the boat appeared to be very steady. Although it is fully...
Since the last report, soundings of great interest and scientific value have been made. One haul reached a depth of 4173 fathoms, and the discovery was made that a variety of sponge, found hitherto only in comparatively shallow water, exists at this great depth...
Part of Dr. Agassiz's work has consisted in sounding and trawling in shallow and deep water for animal life. The result of the trawls were, however, very barren, both outside and inside the lagoons. The temperature of the water at 500 fathoms was found to be quite generally 40 degrees Farenheit. During the trip many photographs of the structure and mode of formation of the Paumotu Islands have been taken, and Mr. Mayer has devoted much time to drawing the medusae which have been collected...