Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above all is to make them understand their own world, the people of which they are a part, the life of nature about them, the men among whom they have to make their way. These are the indispensable parts of modern education...
From the Howden collection of autographs Mr. Gosse obtained several unprinted pieces. After reading these, Mr. Gosse spoke briefly upon the age in which Gray lived, and the place he occupied in it. Gray was isolated in his age, and went back for his teachers to Dryden and Cowley. He formed his style on these, and, in a less degree, on Milton and the Greek poets...
...were to be as dangerous, those of us who feel how much manly we are for the game would be willing to run the risks, and would be willing in years to come to have our sons run the same risks. Surely, then. in this country and in this age, we cannot afford to lose any sport that has so great man-making power...
...chapel will tend to diminish the spiritual and material welfare of the college, and that, as a unit, our students are not in favor of the change. Moreover, we are taken to task for handling our correspondent's letter too severally. We are told that our claims to age and experience are not sufficient to entitle us to the right of assuming the guidance of the university in its religious matters, and, we are sorry to add, our critics couch their reproof in very energetic terms...
...which is at present going on, for confirmation of this statement. Nobody has ever for a moment supposed that there would not be a small minority which would favor the existing regime, but we confidently predict that the entire student body, practically, wishes its abolition. Any claims to superior age or wisdom, we wish modestly to deny: it has always been our object, as our correspondents know perfectly well, to voice the sentiments for our students, not to "arrogate to ourselves" the task of their guidance. But we are charged with discourtesy to a correspondent. We wish...