Word: ages
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more important to the well-being of a state than the increased production of commodities, is the upholding of public morals. We are on the crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...
...view it must pay to advertise. The literary and artistic efforts of the number are directed toward the automobile, but writers and artists must still be under the depressing effects of the mid-years, for there is a failure to catch the joys and humors of the horse-less age. The front page, it is true represents Lampy's Trio speeding away from the dusty cloud which spells "gloom," and the centre-place tries to show that the automobile has certain pleasures on the side; there is still a chance, however, for the real humorist of the automobile to show...
...universal; many men of the most heterodoxical opinions in some walks of life are narrowly orthodoxy in others. Robert Ingersoll, the remarkably heterodoxical religious thinker, is a striking example of this, as his ideas in politics were narrow-gauge republican. Opposite orthodoxy stands liberty; but in our own age the freedom of the individual is often confused with the higher and nobler liberty of the intellect and the sprit. This must needs express the liberty of the individual to attain its ends, as true liberty is the untrammeled freedom of truth...
...afternoon on Tuesdays beginning March 3. these lectures will be open to the public. Their subjects will be as follows; March 3, "The Romantic School and Its Aims"; March 10, "Romanticism and Symbolism"; March 17, "Romanticism and Nature"; March 24, "Romanticism and the Fairy Tale"; March 31, "The Golden Age and the Blue Flower"; April 7, "Romanticism, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism...
...other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre is irresistible...