Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...
...impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element thoughts and considerations of great thinking men who talk to the student in the hopes that he may learn by the experience of older men, and that what they say to him, may be of some advantage in after life. A solitary lecture by a well known speaker...
...unjustly called upon for a "Bierjunge," he can appeal to the president. If the latter sees fit he orders the challenger to drain his glass. This performance is loaded with tremendous odium and the men are very careful about challenging a new member without sufficient cause. There is an element of humor and "coziness" combined with a certain amount of rigid discipline in all these ceremonies which is very refreshing, compared with all American attempts at beer-nights which would seem to bear out successfully the assertion of our German friend...
ENGLISH. 1. A critical estimate of Lord Macaulay's writings. 2. The relation of Wordsworth's poems to his life. 3. The Fantastic Element in Hawthorne's characters and plots. 4. What is the Function of Literature in Modern Life...
...comparison with the work of Prof. Dunbar in the same line. The eloquence of the speaker is necessary to give force to the subject matter of the lecture on the Workingman. As a whole, the work makes the best use of the arguments at hand, but there is an element of sophisty in the treatment of the weaker points in the subject...