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...with which the artist may be concerned. There are the more obvious, unessential and trivial truths of nature, and those which are more recondite, fundamental and characteristic. It is the latter and not the former, to which, as he teaches, Turner's art gives expression. These higher orders of visual truths are, however, not those which are commonly perceived. "People commonly," he tells us, "recognize objects by their least important attributes. To lay hold of the non fundamental and expressive truths, in the manner of Turner, requires a higher order of artistic gift, and to appreciate them requires ocular training...
...BURNHAM, JR.GRADUATE CLUB.- The next regular meeting of the club will be held in the Colonial Club House, Quincy street, Friday evening, January 10, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Jefferson B. Fletcher will address the Club on "The Visual Image in Literature...
GRADUAE CLUB.- Mr. Jefferson B. Fletcher will address the Club on Friday evening, Jan. 10. The subject of the address will be "The Visual Image in Literature...
...tests of reaction time and quickness in sparring made by Dr. Fitz last year in the physiological laboratory will be continued this year. In addition to these, a "Visual location apparatus for testing manual quickness and accuracy" has been devised. The machine consists of a moving carriage which is placed in different positions behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds...
...Cambridge has been the atmospheric conditions. In Peru, however, the atmospheric conditions are most extraordinarily favorable for the study the heavens; although the chief object of the recent very successful expedition to Peru by Prof. W. H. Pickering was the photographing of the planet Mars, yet the careful visual observations were made at the same time which have led to most interesting results. Another event of this visit was the construction of a meteorological station on Mount Chaehacari in Peru at the height of 16,000 feet, 1,000 feet higher than Mt. Blanc and hence the most elevated station...