Word: classics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SECOND YEAR HONORS IN CLASSIC...
...will be given for the first time during the coming summer by Mr. Copeland. The course will cover the period from the death of Dryden to the publication of the Lyrical Ballads (1700-1708), and deals with those writers who may be regarded as marking the dominance of the classic spirit in English literature. Among the writers discussed will be Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Goldsmith, Fielding, Cowper, and Burns...
...appointments were made at the last meeting of the Corporation: For one year from September 1, 1903--James Sturgis Pray, instructor in landscape architecture; William Luther Mowll, instructor in architecture; Edward Capps, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago, lecturer on the Greek theatre; Hans Oertel, of Yale, lecturer on classic philology; for the second half of 1902-3--James Blair Newell, assistant in history...
This book, first published anonymously in the "Atlantic Monthly" during 1863, produced a deep impression on the public mind. Since that time, it has had a permanent place among the classic stories of American writers. It is considered by several critics to be best of the many good books that Dr. Hale has written. A reception will probably be held after the reading, when those who desire may meet Dr. Hale...
...pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola is in this an artist, his novels have qualities which are all artistic; they are well planned and therefore classical; he is classic in the delineation of his characters, which are not mere individuals, but general types...