Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attractive little volume entitled "The Enjoyment of Art," Mr. Carleton Noyes '95, now an instructor in English in the University, discusses ably a problem little considered in most works on music, painting or literature, and yet of importance to any one who would rightly understand and appreciate art--that is, the exact nature and meaning of "a work of art." He explains with clearness and insight that in all its manifestations art is one, in its great purpose of revealing new beauty or deeper harmony. The author successfully attempts to reduce the supposed mysteries of art discussion to the basis...
...plan suggests having Commencement a week earlier than usual. I understand from members of the Faculty that this will mean the opening of College one week earlier in the fall. Furthermore, this change will necessitate keeping the baseball team in training ten days after College closes, in case the full series of games is played, while under the present arrangement it is in training but three days later...
...Committee also report that they understand that the President and Fellows approve the recommendations which your Committee now present...
...distinct and technical the training of a real forester must be very few people seem to understand. Even your editorial betrays a common misconception by speaking of the "esthetic side of the profession." A forester may have an esthetic side just as a lumberman may, but forestry itself is no more concerned with esthetic questions than is the lumber business. In fact in the east forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing...
...Universities have long memories. Forty years ago the American Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here...