Word: bourgeoises
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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Thursdays: Prof. Bocher, Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
THE Bowdoin Orient failed to understand our article on "Gentilshommes, Bourgeois, Artistes," but found many typographical errors therein. We are sorry that we went in too deep for the Orient, but think that the typographical errors which so troubled the mind of their exchange editor must have had a subjective...
It should not be understood that the artiste is merely a hybrid between a bourgeois and a gentleman, - the term connotes more than this. The moment a man's taste so changes that he fails to appreciate the exquisite beauty of chromos, and Dickens's pathos, and prayer-meetings, or...
In our view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and...
So far as we can see, the book-learning or literary culture bestowed by a college education is no more than a daub of paint over the bourgeois figure. Not that the book-learning acquired is superficial, - it is usually sound and thorough, - but the relation of this culture to...