Word: bohemia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Contemporary National Movement in Bohemia...
...Carney '96, "In Bohemia," John Boyle O'Reilly...
Stevenson was not an Oxford man, but an idle student at a poor University of Edinburgh, where he occupied himself chiefly in learning to write. He was never the least bit of a snob but was, on the other hand, a good deal of a bohemian. All lovers of Bohemia would enjoy his "Providence and the Guitar...
...Journalism, Bohemia, the Bohemians and the pseudo-Bohemians," was the subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture in Sever 11 last night, but it would be impossible to reproduce the whole of the entertaining talk in which he led his hearers now close to his main theme and again farther from it into interesting generalities...
...understanding of which, with most college men, is probably far from clear. Of journalism he spoke chiefly as it qualifies men to become Bohemians, or perhaps rather as it attracts those in whom the Bohemian instinct is strong; but this was merely incidental to his more important description of Bohemia and the Bohemians. The Bohemia with which he was dealing is not the country known to geography, but is "a condition rather than a place"; while the Bohemian is a person "employed in some precarious calling not dissociated from the arts." The characteristics of such persons, it is true...