Word: talenting
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...freshman musical organizations have begun the year under peculiarly favorable circumstances. The members possess a considerable amount of talent which, however, will require much practice and training before it can be brought into shape for the spring concerts...
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 law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting...
...Booth's characters that it was his best, but it is safe to class under this head Iago, Hamlet and King Lear from Shakespeare, and Richelieu and Bertuccio from the other plays in which he acted. In each of these parts he showed his talent to the best advantage; and the fact that he could be so wonderfully successful in his representation of such widely different characters is perhaps the best testimony to the perfection to which he carried...
...opposed to the notion that we must have a strictly American art. Though an American may in his study abroad take foreign landscapes for his subjects, he is still American in his art. Any national art is the sum total of what the natives may assimilate by their talent. So one will remain an American in his art. No one has any style of art entirely to himself. Raphael and Michael Angelo, though giants of their time, were not alone. They borrowed from the great masters before them. If one is only a link in the chain of artists...
...freshman or a senior, and it is one of the characteristics of the place that ability will be recognized no matter where it may be found. The false modesty which keeps a man hidden within himself doubtless effects every organization in college. There is probably much undiscovered talent in athletics, though here the chances of discovery from without are great. There must be much more undiscovered talent in literary and musical, ways for here it cannot be exposed by any other than its possessor. Freshmen should feel that, if they have good voices, they will have as good a chance...