Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lecture by Dr. H. T. Costello on "The Logic of Science. I. The Irrationality of Genius," in Emerson...
...furthermore a pianist with a beautiful touch and a highly developed skill. Grasse's compositions and playing have received the warmest approval from audiences both in Germany and in this country. Let us therefore not be behindhand in furnishing a worthy and enthusiastic audience to greet this real genius at his first appearance among...
...former standards; not so broadly human, kindly, but keener and more exacting, perhaps a little intolerant. The four men who discuss Dowson, Poetic Drama and The Poet have expressed, very professionally, attitudes rather individual. Harrison's "Dowson" takes a fling at the old heresy that the morals of a genius do not matter, even while he has a little sympathy for the genius...
...engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay...
...Shorey did not discuss the differences between the Age of Pericles and modern times, but revealed the life in Athens by pointing out the features of its similarity with modern life. The first Persian war stirred the Athenians to the supreme manifestation of their genius. Their indominatable spirit in the attempt to build the fairest of cities was curbed by the destructive period of the thirty years war. Although the shadow of war was constantly upon the Athenians, they accomplished in eighty years the building of great cities containing wonderful specimens of art; the establishing of a democratic machinery...