Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Throughout the whole complex body of phenomena that constitute the history of Greek sculpture we can trace a great underlying struggle to establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence...
Those who have ever grappled with German philosophy and who know the complex and altogether tremendous nature of its vocabulary, can imagine how much meaning such discourses would convey to one still mourning over the mazes of Otto and Ollendorf...
...president of Harvard says that "every youth of eighteen is an infinitetely complex and solitary organization." Next "correct education has for its aim the correct development of each student's gifts." I do not grant the first statement, and the second is not true. Do you, in physical education, take for your aim to strengthen the parts that are weak, or do you seek to develop more the parts already strong? Is the public ready for a steatopygean education. They like it in Africa. Is a man complete if he be a superior mathematician and that be the limit...
...faculty committee resolution; and the faculty members of the committee are also bound to report the action of the faculty back to the student members. When the clause for the appointment and election of members was reached, three or four schemes were proposed; one of minority representation, a very complex one, providing for delegates from the societies, athletic bodies, and newspapers, and the one which was finally adopted. The '88 delegates here made an ineffectual protest against the small number of delegates allowed them, but their hopes were ruthlessly crushed, and their motion lost, by a vote...
...compelled to retire. If the Committee will state definitely what they intend to do, and will take a manly stand in the matter, we can assure them of the hearty support of the undergraduate sentiment in the college, and that they are doing their best to solve a very complex problem. If this sentiment meets the respect that it deserves, everything will be harmonious. While Pinafore rules and bib-and-tucker regulations are absurd in a university such as this, any changes that really will work for the welfare of the college are desired as much by the students...