Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While self-culture with Goethe was primarily an affair of the inner man, he did not neglect the body. In his autobiography he tells us of how he overcame certain physical weaknesses during his student days in Strasbourg. Living before our mechanical age, he was not accustomed to loud noises, which jarred his nerves. He trained his nerves by standing close to the drummers of the French garrison every evening when they sounded tattoo, a rather violent method as he admits himself...
...age of 25 he writes to his friend Pfenniger: 'And so the word of man is the word of God to me . . . . and with ardent soul I embrace my brothers, Moses, the prophets, the evangelists, the apostles, Spinoza and Machiavelli. And to each one I may say: dear friend, you are like myself...
...serene Olympian at Weimar' as been a favorite phrase applied to Olympus in his old age, as though Goethe, horned in Weimar, were like Zeus in Olympus, in serene calmness far removed from human cares in troubles. But what must we think of a man who, at the age of 74, falls passionately in involve with a girl of 19? . . . 'Passion rings suffering,' he wrote at that time. But the fruit of this passion was one of the deepest and most beautiful love poems ever written, 'The Elegy of Marienad...
...such a graduate, he must have spent five years in work requiring like technical skill and be at least 24 years old. The candidate must be of good moral character, and must have a practical ability to use French books. It is preferable that he should be between the age...
...blessings' of popular education in America have created an age in which we are ruled by mediocrity" is the sweeping arrangement of the American educational system by E. R. Pennel, writing in the Forum for November...