Word: epochal
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...must one neglect the great oases in the desert. Lecturers like those of Haskins and Kittredge at Harvard, of Farrand at Yale, of Morse Stephens at California, of Gildersleeve at Johns Hopkins, have marked a great epoch in American education. They have been something more than careful digests of accessible information. There has gone into them the living blood of rich personality, and the student is a different personality for having heard them. And there are special subjects, like psychology and logic, which are taught in America with a like and equipment unequalled in England...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...
...first course, given on Monday and Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock, beginning Monday, October 13, will be eight lectures on Armenia by Frederick Cornwallis Conybearse, M. A., Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. 1. Physiography and Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political...
...Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution...
...when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that these, among other things, are points to consider...