Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...employing literature in historical work. Literature appeals primarily to the emotions; truth is often sacrificed to artistic effect; anachronisms, foreignisms, exaggerations, abound in most literature. Thus it becomes necessary to study the tendencies of different literary schools, and also comparative literature, in order to discount these qualities and reach beneath them the true, naturally distinctive characteristics of the times. There is a great need of men who are able to interpret literature in this way, both from the aesthetic and historical standpoints...
...specialize, arrive at the last mid-year milestone with a personal acquaintance with professors in our own particular department, and yet have never heard a lecture by some of the men most truly representative of the best in Harvard's Faculty! To go through Harvard without having sat beneath at least three or four of her greatest masters, is to let slip an opportunity, for which practically every one of us chose Harvard in preference to any other American college...
...various reform movements rather than to enter the field as candidates for election. But even so, the present attitude is in strong contrast to the old feeling that an educator could have no part in politics, when, with the predominance of the classics, the professor felt it far beneath his dignity to maintain an interest in current affairs...
...beautiful hereine who was always supposed to be the daughter of an old "Churman" finds that she really has a fortune, and old castle and a title. Thus after three hours, or rather eighteen years, of unappreciated worth she finally wins the young lord who could not marry beneath his rank but who had always loved...
...present bridge is an old affair of wood so narrow that there always is congestion at the bridge on days of large crowds. It has been considered so dangerous that at times barges have been placed beneath the draw. One great obstacle that has prevented the construction of the new bridge has been in the past the opposition of the United States Government to obstructing the river approach to its property at the Watertown Arsenal. This objection was weakened materially by the construction of the West Boston drawless bridge and the Charles River dam and since then progress has been...