Word: brought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This school of poets in prose, of which M. de Regnier discussed the most important members, has made important changes in the French language. It has always been an instrument readily adaptable to elegance and precision of expression, but these prose poets have brought to light an old musical quality, which is now in a state of development, and which will have an important bearing on the future of French Literature...
...public sale of tickets for the performance of Goethe's Iphigenie begins today at Chas. W. Sever's Bookstore. As the advance sale has brought in a very large number of applications for seats, only a limited number of tickets is left, and these will probably be sold very quickly. Students who wish to secure a seat should therefore buy tickets as soon as possible...
...serve as Dean, first of the College, and then of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and as chairman of important committees. Though in private he expressed regret that administrative duties took so much time and strength from his work as professor, he gave himself to them devotedly, and brought to them the same thoroughness, soundness of judgment, and disinterestedness that distinguished his instruction and his writings. In the conduct of administrative business he was ready to assume responsibility; in this way, and by the careful preparation of the matter in hand, he saved his associates many hours of fatiguing...
Throughout the country water powers have fallen into disuse or have been neglected for the last 20 or more years. This has been due to the fact that the power has been fixed at one point and could not be brought to centers of population or lines of transportation. Recently, however, the development of electrical transmission has changed all of this, and water powers which previously were overlooked are now being used. This is particularly the case where in the West the regulation of the streams for irrigation makes possible the development of cheap power...
...certain carelessness and negligence which appeared in the writings of the leading men of this period brought about in 1850 a reaction which came at a most propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea...