Word: calme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mendelssohn, Overture, "Sea-calm and Prosperous Voyage...
...Scholars continued their baseball triumphs yesterday and frazzled the Funny Fellows to the tune oft 12 to o 10. Lampy's elongated slab-artist tried to uncover come centre-page stuff, and the southpaw catcher pulled as many of the wide, wild throws as he dared; but against the calm, unerring judgment of their intellectual opponents their efforts went for naught. Stellar work in the box by Slater and Wagnerian playing by McLain at short, coupled with most daring steals home by MacVeagh, put the game on ice for the Phi Beets. The features of Lampy's work were...
...life is sordid and miserable until he finds some great idea which can truly claim his all. Just as a river passes by and serves towns and forests, but does not turn aside from its course toward the great calm of the sea, so the soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...
...conditions which confronted the ancient people of India greatly resembled those of the first settlers in America, but the aims and evolution of the two races were far different. America sought to produce perfect men, who should possess all knowledge and power; India sought to attain eternal peace and calm by perfect harmony with God and nature, even at the cost of worldly success...
...George Herbert Palmer, professor of philosophy in Harvard University, a teacher who holds his students by scholarship of living power, a clear thinker of calm meditative tone, a student of ethics with a deep grasp on that theistic truth which underlies all righteousness, a literary artist--fit editor of the poems of his spiritual ancestor, George Herbert; his refinement in style, whether in philosophy or literature being no mere fastidiousness, but the reflex of refined thought, a philosopher in the original sense, widely influential for good and imbued with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth which gives substance and worth...