Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faculty and the student body should pull together in this manner, report of this harmonious Harvard spirit could not help going forth to the world as the most praiseworthy phase of Harvard's renaissance this year, and could not help increasing the name and fame of Fair old Harvard...
...Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt Miss Jewett writes a better style and gives a larger, wiser, truer view of New England country people and New England country life. The lecture was followed with a reading of Miss Jewett's story entitled "Fame's Little...
...Guyau's fame does not rest upon his constructive ability. He really had no system of philosophy. The best that can be said of him is that he adhered consistently throughout his life to a few, disconnected fundamental principles of ethics and metaphysics. He was great as a critic and as an analyzer...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...June 28, 1762, Catherine II was proclaimed empress. No monarch ever cared so much for contemporary opinion. She carried on correspondences with Voltaire and other great writers, in this way spreading her fame throughout Europe. As a natural result the French had great influence at court; but they lost their power after the time of Napoleon and a distinct Russian influence arose. The empress now became the centre of a circle of poets who celebrated her deeds in verse...