Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea of founding such an institution as the present school has become was first proposed by Professor Norton. The Archacological Institute of America took up the idea with energy and in co-operation with the leading colleges of the country opened the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, October...
...until after the money has been actually subscribed, and the graduates have been assured that all four colleges will take a genuine interest in the affair. So the scheme is still in embryo, but Mr. Caswell is working at it with a good deal of energy, principally with the idea that there should be intercollegiate contests of brains as well as muscle. It is hoped that if the plan succeeds the college will send a team to represent Harvard. All those who enter this tournament may consider themselves candidates for the Harvard delegation to the intercollegiate contest...
...actual presence and the departure of a tremendous gale. Then follows a short movement, full of the finest harmonies, entitled "Summer Idyl" and a less brilliant movement, "The Shepherdess Song." The Suite ends with the "Forest Spirits," a quick, gay, movement, without any one theme, but expressing the idea suggested by the name, very vividly...
Dante was the end of the first and beginning of the second period. The trouvere and the troubadour are responsible for the Vita Nouva and Divine Comedy. Love, the motive idea of the middle ages is the theme of all his work. On the other hand the spirit of the Renaissance enriched his mind and gave him a power of originality which distinguished his poems from those Italian songs imitated from Provencal models. Dante with the learning of the ancient world tells for the middle ages that Love is the great mover of the universe...
...with the middle ages than other nations. The result of this movement was the study of everything Mediaeval by Grimm and Uhland with a view to tracing all modern ideals to an orgin in a national folk lore. When the Romantic impulse for these studies died, and the modern idea of science for sciences sake arose Romance and Germanic Philology was already compiled. With such tools the motives of Science and Nationality promise to make continual excursions in the field of Mediaeval study...