Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conclusion, M. de Regnier said, "Villiers de I' Isle Adam has always strenuously defended the casuality of the ideal and the eternal cult of beauty...
Good society, in the eyes of some, fosters inequality. But this is not so, for the ideal within society is equality, and the better the society, the more it seeks equality. As society has extended its limits, equality has also spread. As far as we can conceive it or forecast it, the new condition, the equality of the future, will be the enlargement of good society till it comprises all humanity...
...speaking of the symbolists, Mr. Babbitt stated that there are two kinds of symbolism, one of ideal of thought, introduced by Emerson, and the other of ideal of dreams, introduced by Rousseau and Chateaubriand and defined by Verlaine. The French symbolists or "decadents" belong to this latter class. They employ a very vague form of symbolism, endeavoring to make their verse musical, and paying little need to coherence. In this respect they are nearly akin to Wagner, the great symbolistic composer. The symbolists have trespassed against all rules of poetry, and for this reason are not recognized as good authors...
...autumn with discouraging prospects, Captain McBride and his men have worked faithfully and the college has supported them. Never has so large a number of men been in training, not only for the university, but for the various fall teams playing with one another. Never has the ideal college sport, as the outcome and fruition of play at home, been so fully realized. Never has a college been more loyal to its teams in adversity. Never has a team physically weaker more distinguished itself than in tieing Harvard, and never has heart-breaking defeat like that inflicted by Princeton been...
...character of Portia is built on a larger plan than any of Shakespere's other heroines. She anticipated the modern conception of the ideal woman and has the combination of those qualities which are opposite to each other but which are not contrary. In the same way the character of Bassanio may be called Shakespere's ideal of manhood. It is in these beautifully developed and idealistic but not visionary characters that the charm of the play lies...