Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry James, in his brief biography of Hawthorne, has lamented the bleakness and restriction of the New England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...
Faith was a very simple thing, yet like life, though simple was very complex. We should distinguish between faith and its outward aspects as well as between the different kinds of faith. There was the faith that could see God in Hebrew history but could not see Him in American history. Then there was the anticipatory faith which also lacked connection with the life of the present. Such faith which removed God from the duties, the struggles, the passions of every day was sure to breed unbelief...
...present system of taxation is bad. - (a) Extremely complex. - (b) Expensive. - (c) Illogical. - (d) Clumsy: Ely, 185, 225. - (e) Demoralizing to taxpayers: Ely, 243. - (f) Imposes artificial restraints on industry, Ely, 243. - (g) Discourages improvements: Century, XL, 385. - (h) Incidence is concealed. - (i) Inequitable: Ely, 242 and Chap...
...account of the great expansion of the University in recent years, the formation of some such committee as that for the Reception of Students was clearly needed. Newcomers found it harder and harder to adapt themselves to the complex condition which they met; all were inconvenienced and not a few were disheartened. To do away with this state of things, a few members of the Faculty took the matter into hand and put their sympathy into definite form. They bethought themselves of what new students wanted to know, they gathered the needed information, and secured means for easily communicating...
...there has been plenty of good material on hand,- players with long experience and established reputation. The chief problem to be solved then was to dispose of these men in the most advantageous way and drill them in working together. At the present time the problem is much more complex. Not only must the material be formed into a well-working nine, but the material itself is yet to be produced. Who are to represent Harvard against Yale is an open question. Developement of candidates and not selection of the nine engrosses the attention of the captain...