Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ruling on the quorum is unconstitutional indefinite and dangerous. - (a) Unconstitutional. - (1) Not in accordance with the practice up to 1889; contemporaneous exposition. - (2) A majority prescribed by the constitution. - (3) The House not in absolute control of its own procedure; Consti, Art. 1, $5; Bryce, pp. 129-131. - (b) Indefinite, by being capable of different interpretations; Nation, Feb. 13, 1890, p. 124. - (c) Dangerous. - (1) Rules are intended to protect, not to oppress minorities...
Faculty of Art and Sciences. Meeting...
...present state of the art of protecting buildings from lightning...
...carrying power, is in the present day very untrustworthy, but with ancient tradition it was different, while with us the faculty of memorizing is considered as merely an amusement, with them, oral tradition was law book, title-deed of property and method of religious instruction. Memorizing was a fine art and was cultivated to an extent almost inconceivable. The Hebrews did not put their psalms on paper; trained men learned them. For centuries, the Vodas were repeated from one generation to another. Among the many instances of the powers of the cultivated memory is that of the inhabitants...
...that one cannot help but read it through after he has once begun it and read it through with the keenest pleasure. The first and third parts appear to us the most artistic of the four divisions of the poem; for in the second, the simplicity which the best art would give to Angelle's monody, is wanting. That numerous lines linger in one's memory is one of the best proofs of the poem's excellence...