Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exchange professorships with Europe has been seriously impaired by the withdrawal of Germany owing to the war. But Paris still exchanges; and Belgium has been added to the list. The professors who have come to the University from abroad have represented varied departments of learning and have always brought fresh points of view. Literature has been perhaps the most usual subject; government and mathematics have, among others, been treated by exchange professors. None, however, can be more germane to present problems of economics, philosophy, and history, as well as science, than the lectures on evolution to be given by Prosor...
...vital practical advantages. Our constantly growing international relations will be followed by visits from scholars of every corner of the world. The system, with South America as elsewhere, is inevitable. And a start should be made while the Latin professors, who have in the past looked to Europe for fresh ideas and for visiting lectureships, are still unaccustomed to the conditions caused by the war, and are not settled in their present necessity of staying at home for all of their research work...
...frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library, where they add a fresh distinction to the 'Treasure Room...
...purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating. In the preface, Professor Kittredge acknowledges his debt to the work of other Chaucerian scholars 'in both hemispheres,' but there is perhaps no book on Chaucer which owes so little to the labors of other men. It has the true originality of the scholar who has so thoroughly assimilated all that...
...Casey makes some thoughtful remarks, under the caption "Opera, Owned and Borrowed," on the ever fresh problem of opera in Boston, one which should be solved if that community is to retain its position in the musical life of the country. Comments on an editorial from the "Opera Magazine," and reviews conclude a number of high standard which must re-affirm the consideration to which the "Musical Review" is entitled as a genuine contribution to the critical activity of our country...