Word: esotericism
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A notable side attraction at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was the Parliament of Religions, gotten up by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of Chicago. Opened with a prayer by the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the Parliament brought to the U. S. for the first time...
Critical consensus, while it writes off Gertrude Stein's less comprehensible utterings as a public loss, grants that she has been a private gain to more intelligible writers, and that her influence on contemporary literature has been vicariously potent. Serious critics take her seriously, even when they cannot understand...
The substitution of men nearer the student, in short, will not solve the fundamental trouble; some method must be found for instructing the Advisers in the details relating to courses and fields of concentration. This might be accomplished by a seminar or meeting among the Advisers themselves, at which information...
The first part of the course is devoted to the derivation of many of the theorems of Euclidian geometry by analytical methods. Later one is introduced into the esoteric art of differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions, and is taught the use of polar coordinates. Complicated as it...
Since the material of this course is conveyed almost entirely in the lectures, its success has been in large part the result of Professor Chase's pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts...