Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths of scientific argument...
...History of Architecture and the Arts immediately connected with it; Elementary French, projective and perspective of shades and shadows; construction, (theory and practice); free hand drawing from the cast. This examination will last six hours. A person to be eligible for this scholarship must be under thirty years of age and must have studied two years with an Architect resident in Massachusetts...
...Ernest Rhys, in his address of last night, said that the essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes...
...bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject in every period, although the art-types were very different in the archaic age from those of later times. The series of stereopticon views used to illustrate this incident gave a good idea of the artistic progress of the vase-makers, beginning with the stiff and conventional figures of the early vases and continuing down to the time when landscape and a background were introduced...
...well as important event in college life. By its means the members of a class are all brought together in a pleasant, social way that goes far towards strengthening the bonds of fellowship and friendship which should exist among the members of every class. The tendency at the present age is for all class feeling to be obliterated or swallowed up by the division into cliques and clubs. But as every college man is of necessity more or less identified with his class, so the importance of these class dinners cannot be over-estimated. In after life the class...