Word: supportiveness
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Thirdly, the artist must escape undetected after he has given the last touch to his work. The reason for this principle is like the second of the ten given in support of the first principle. If the artist, leaving his work complete, escapes entirely undetected, then his deed is a mysterious horror, and no man can be sure that the fate of the subject will not be his own. The murderer has done his work cleanly and skilfully (we will say), and is gone. No one knows who he is, what are his motives, what are his resources of courage...
...most imposing, the crowd immense; and it is hoped that by careful scrutiny of the historical relics, by the bleak march over the hills, and by elbowing a way through sixty thousand pairs of shoulders (and we passed some of them twice), we have generated sufficient patriotism to support a reasonable amount of inflation and force-bill. It is useless for us to attempt even a short description of what was to be seen, when we consider that there are fourteen daily newspapers published within a radius of four miles; suffice it, then, to say that all went well...
...last Advocate contained a plea for an elective in cosmic philosophy. This plea was based upon the importance of this philosophy, evidenced in the fact that so many eminent scholars and philosophers support it, and in its evident comprehensibility...
...Cricket Club is one of the oldest sporting organizations in College, and is deserving of better support than it has ever received. The popularity of the game is increasing in this country, and it becomes of more importance each year for us to have a good eleven in the field. The success of the Eleven last spring was very creditable; and, if money is forthcoming, the Eleven this season bids fair to be quite as good as last year's. Comparatively little has been done for the support of the Club by any class now in College, either with...
...showed no intention of remaining fixed; the other, in a more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government who support prayers, what object there is in compelling attendance. The proper authorities have expressed their conviction, based on experiment, that prayers are not necessary for the discipline of the college; the other grounds for maintaining them are religious. How much devotion is conceivable in students sitting in a chapel where the temperature...