Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Beginning with the importance of ethics in the conduct of every of everyday affairs President Eliot pointed out the evil of over-capitalization which, because of its effect on the state of mind of wage earners is one of the main causes of the existing industrial unrest. The promoting of companies, he said, should be rewarded for is skill and success in proportion to the amount of skill required to develop a new enterprise and to the gravity of the risks to be run, as well as in proportion to the amount of money invested in it. And directors...
...nature and meaning of "a work of art." He explains with clearness and insight that in all its manifestations art is one, in its great purpose of revealing new beauty or deeper harmony. The author successfully attempts to reduce the supposed mysteries of art discussion to the basis of everyday intelligence. The book, written as it is in a pleasantly, simple fashion, free from "the jargon of the schools," should prove of great interest to the college...
Century -- "Vista," by George Cabot Lodge '95; "Heroism in Everyday Life," by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., h.'86; "Darkness," by Alfred A. Wheeler '76; "The Canada Sable," by Francis Sterne Palmer...
...their surroundings. Their realistic plays have many faults; they are too harrowing in detail, and they are often grossly incongruous. But with all their faults they have great force and great sincerity, for the playgoers are critical and the drama which they approve must be sternly true to their everyday life...