Word: ages
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most carefully taught studies in this College is the study of History. A number of electives are offered, which are made both entertaining and instructive; but there seems to be a curious gap in the middle of the list. The history of the golden age of Greece and Rome is taught in the classical electives; the fall of the Roman Empire, and the general history of Europe to Charlemagne, are contained in History I.; the second course extends from this point to the middle of the fifteenth century, while the sixth, the next general course, begins only with the seventeenth...
...much for the romance of the arena. In this matter-of-fact age nothing can be done without material guaranties, which generally mean money, and certainly do in this instance...
SEVERAL men in Philosophy are beginning to think Mill a dull boy in his youth, since Pascal at three years of age evolved a theory which Bacon cribbed in his LATER works...
Begged with the zeal of his tender age...
...age is shifting, unsettled, and insincere; can we expect that its art should not be so too? Men of to-day are confused by the magnitude and the number of the questions which Religion, Science, Literature, and Philosophy put to them so sharply and so remorselessly. Is it strange, then, that they are without convictions, and therefore fail...