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...this proposition are taken from ethnology from the results of psychological research, and from the history of poetry itself. With this premise, the rest of the subject matter falls naturally into place. The dualism of poetry is first discussed, that is, its division into "one class where the communal spirit and environment condition the actual making, and into another class where the artist, the individual, has upper hand from the start." After the distinction between these two forms is established, each is treated in its relation to external influences. Special force is here laid on the nature and growth...
...fact, Jordan, located across the street from the Radcliffe Quad, is considered on-campus living. The co-op's three buildings were constructed in the 1960s, but over the years interest in the communal lifestyle has dwindled...
Although co-op residents comprise less than I percent of the undergraduate student body, those who live there say there is rarely a shortage of newcomers waiting to try the communal life. "We don't advertise very much because we haven't really got the space," Redditt says...
...closing, the lecturer laid down four propositions: The land belongs to the people; communal ownership has never proved economical; private ownership under national control seems the best thing for us; if the state ever recalls its lands it must compensate the individual owners. We may learn so to co-ordinate private enterprise and social co-operation as to realize the divine order. - Extracts from Springfield Republican...
...descendants of this ancient people have so strongly impressed themselves upon the Spaniards as to compel the latter people to learn the Maya language. He pointed out the two theories as to the use of the buildings whose ruins we find upon the terraces; 1st, that they were communal houses like those of the ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory people. The climate of Yucatan is such that these ruins are rapidly disappearing. In conclusion, Mr. Agassiz expressed the hope that the public would aid the society to investigate these ruins before they were...