Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Epoch and the University," G. S. Morison...
Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...
...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
...most significant fact in regard to Dr. Holmes's death is that it ends an important epoch in the history of American literature. Dr. Holmes was the last of the remarkable group who have represented the best that there is in the prose and poetry of New England, and whose works will have a lasting value, - Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whittier and Holmes. To these writers there is now no worthy successor. With the death of Dr. Holmes the period of New England's literary preeminence comes to a close...
...that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration...