Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hesitate to admit that there is any real decadence of the "Harvard spirit." It is not strange that the reaction from the old conservative way of thinking should at first go at little too far in the other direction. In later years this decade will probably mark an important epoch in the history of Harvard. We are in the midst of this change and can hardly appreciate its true bearing either to the past...
After their own invasions, the next stirring epoch in the life of the Celts came with the invasions of the Anglo Saxons. The grand figure in these conflicts is that of King Arthur, and the fountain of romance that has found its source in his life seems inexhaustible. Such modern poets as Wadsworth, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, have shown themselves greatly influenced by the history or the legends of this mediaeval hero...
...civilized man. The concentrated knowledge of ages past, the experience of many years, a body of learned men, all are here. They are the fruits of the labor, hope and prayer of generations. No class has had the advantage offered to '95 Now is the most important epoch in your lives. The restrictions of school and home life are here cast off and discretion of judgement and self control cultivated. It is the beginning of one's life work. The confidence in the student felt by the University is shown in the freedom given in the choice of studies...
Last evening in Sever 5 Mr. C. H. C. Wright '91 read his Bowdoing Prize Dissertation on "The Influence of Contemporary French Literature upon that of England and America during the past Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism...
...Dudleian lecture this evening marks an epoch in the religious history of Harvard and serves to make plain the tendency of American colleges toward non-sectarianism. We have no doubt that the Puritan founder of the series would be amazed at the prospect of a Roman Catholic delivering a lecture in this course, but now-a-days we feel ourselves able to listen to the words of both creeds, sure that we shall discern the truth. The course has been established many years; it has always attracted renowned men and been followed with great interest...