Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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History shows a change in the character of Socialism. From being mere cries for freedom and other abstractions, it has become now a system of definite working organizations. There is still the old cry for equality of rights and privileges (not for absolute equality of property); but Socialism's most...
Here, then, is a students' society doing good work, familiarizing the members with the customs and rules of deliberative meetings, while at the same time interesting them in the social and political problems of the day, and preparing them to be good citizens and intelligent voters. Perhaps, if this letter...
The second issue of the Monthly as a whole has much more character than the first. The scope of its contents is broader. A more marked personality distinguishes it. The field covered by the different articles includes the historic, the critical, the imaginative, the analytic, the poetic. Prof. Sanborn contributes...
The new system is asserted to be a system. Students under it are still under bonds, "bonds more compulsive than the old, because fitted with nicer adjustment to each one's person. . . . It remains authoritative, . . . . it insists on that authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and...
To show that he is not dealing merely with theory, Prof. Palmer shows by actual facts that "a manlier type of character actually appears as the elective pamphlet extends." The tone of what is proper at Harvard has changed during the past few years. A more elevated idea of gentlemanly...