Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself. In it is to be found a very able refutation to the beliefs of such men as Mr. Slocum, who in the current Advocate, for instance, urges less time on studies and more on sports and extra curriculum activities. Prof. Chafee believes that the four years of college life can be put to better use, and in general, it must be admitted that he makes a stronger case than Mr. Slocum...
...Oliver Cromwell in his true light as one of the great paradoxes of history. At the outset he attributes the confusion and mistatements regarding the Protector to undue consideration of theory at the expense of facts, and proceeds to a minute investigation of the actual facts of Cromwell's life that sets forth the problem of the man inlucid outline...
...Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...
From first to last, Hardy was sad. He revealed a shadowy disillusion which grew in anger until it attained terrifying proportions. His characters were assailed by a curse that left "happiness but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain." There is an undefinable fear of life growing from the feeling that all is transitory and vain. Hardly lavished scrupulous care on his work, with the inevitable result that this gloom of life found artistic outlet in his realistic portrayal of man suffering the torments imposed by an ever-malignant Fate...
...essence of Hardy's philosophy is the apparent helplessness of mankind. It appears in the poetry, as in the prose, with a sense of human impotency. This view of life is not useful; it may even be dangerous--for it leaves one "with a sense of groping in thick darkness, with a very indefinite light in the distance, if there is any light at all." But despite this depression, Hardy's themes and his style of treatment possess that universal quality which assures him a lasting place among the immortals...