Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forth-coming number of the Monthly opens with a paper from Professor Royce entitled: "Originality and Consciousness," an answer to the question "Why is the best human originality an unconscious product?" Professor Royce analyses "our human type of consciousness" with a view to getting at the originating element in our nature, and comes to the conclusion that it is the subconscious drift of our nature, not "consciousness that, in us men, is the originator." The subject of the symposium, which should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched...
Where up to this time such writers as Corneille and Scarron had tried to improve upon nature, Moliere in these two plays represents nature exactly as he sees it. His strict interpretation of nature, his nationality, and his boldness in introducing a new element at once made Moliere one of the influential...
...first of the editorials, "From a Graduate's Window," deals with what it rightly calls a new kind of disloyalty. It is a scathing and richly deserved arraignment of the disreputable element which exists in the midst of the general body of Harvard newspaper correspondents...
...plantations. The country swarmed with ruffians, and life and property were very insecure. The character of the population was much bettered in 1711 by immigrations of Germans, Hugenots and Scotch Highlanders, and in 1719 by a large delegation of thrifty Scotch-Irish from Ulster, who soon became the strongest element in the society of the colony...
...features. The Glee Club will march in a body and sing popular airs along the route. Red lights, to be furnished by the club, will be distributed on Monday. Several bands have been engaged. The transparencies will be confined to opinions of Bryan and Sound Money, the non-partisan element in the parade not allowing the use of the names of either Palmer and Buckner or McKinley and Hobart. The great non-partisan parade in New York City is sufficient proof that such a scheme is practical. The red caps and gowns to be used in the Republican parade will...