Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...another reaction occurred which gave rise to the Parnassian School. Their work was made more difficult by the growing strength of the prose realism with its Stendhals, Balzacs, Daudets and Zolas. Nothing was more natural than that they should be conservative and pay much attention to verse form. The leading members of this group are Coppee, Anatole France, Sully, Prudhomme, Heredia, Sylvestre and Leon Dierk...
...excellent thing. In the case of the upper classes, a yearly dinner has almost invariably served to bring out class spirit and class sympathy and to bind the members of the class closer together. In these days of very large classes, it is growing more and more difficult to rouse real class spirit and class enthusiasm, and everything which tends to bring out class spirit should be done. One of the best ways has proved to be the class dinner. Why should each class wait until its Sophomore year before having a large dinner of this kind? Then, too, there...
...Library all of his books which were not to be found on its shelves, but the greater part remained in the hands of his heirs; and these latter are the ones which have just been bought. There are 700 volumes which are handsomely bound and in many cases very difficult to procure. The subjects treated are of a very wide scope, but the strength of the collection is in the number of mediaeval French works which it contains. In addition, though in fewer numbers, are included works in mediaeval Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German, a few in later Latin...
...Peabody, the last speaker, said that our purpose in religious meetings was religious unity and a continuance of religious unity. In this movement the first step is easy, the second difficult. What we want to do is to keep a movement on foot, and establish a tendency in that direction so strong and steady, that it will not subside. Accordingly, every month simple University meetings will be held in Phillips Brooks House, with addresses by well-known speakers of different organizations