Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to put King Lear on the stage; for it requires a great actor of the heroic school such as is seldom found out of Italy, and calls for an elaboration and perfection of detail which cannot be secured so long as the lavishness of the public does not equal its critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made...
Consider the situation. The man whose education is based on the rich experience of six thousand years is brought into daily intercourse with the man whose ideas are but the crude generalizations attained to in five thousand nine hundred and seventy. Their natural ability may be equal; but the difference in their points of view is tremendous. Fathers, as is well known, are never progressive; the standards of their early manhood are retained,-and they are long supplanted standards. As for mothers, the case is even worse, for their ideals are those of the maternal grandfather...
...feel elated, or despondent, correspondingly to the position of their classes in the list of prize winners. But aside from the individual events, the tug-of-war contests have now assumed an importance, second only to the class races. It is but rarely that any class enthusiasm is shown equal to that which is the invariable accompaniment. of a victorious "tug." It will be many a year before those who witnessed it, will forget the wild excitement which prevailed when the '83 men, then dignified seniors, bore their victorious team from the hall on their shoulders...
...return to the Spartan-like simplicity of early rowing days sounds well in theory, but if put into practice I fear it would be disastrous to future success on our part. In order to meet our rivals on an equal footing, we must be denied none of the advantages which they have. Were it impossible to meet them on equal terms, it would be better not to meet them...
What does the college student want? Are his views communistic, socialistic, nihilistic? Does he claim that he can and should teach as well as learn, and that he and his instructor should be equal? Is he rapid in his ideas, and does he believe in the effectiveness of dynamite? To all these questions, no. The poor man, the laborer, the ignorant and idle citizen, may cry out for common living, for community of money, property, government, and even brains; but the college student is able to realize that two classes are the law of nature; that the instructor...