Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin to the Romantic poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond them. He was like the Romantic poets, too, in the fact that it was to nature he turned to find escape from the crude actualities of every-day life; and it is probably through his share in the great Romantic work of spiritualizeing nature that he will be most enduringly influential...
...only had more Professor Taussigs and more little volumes like his "State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff," how much easier study would become and how much more general would be the interest and the knowledge shown in important questions of state. What Professor Taussig has done is to resurrect from the Congressional Documents and from other sources equally inaccessible to the ordinary reader, a few of the most famous and valuable papers written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access...
...English department dealing with Anglo-Saxon poetry as distinct from the rest of ancient English literature, the courses on the poets of the various centuries as distinct from those on the prose writers of the same, the relation of English literature to German, and other courses of a like nature, all of which tend to make a specialty of some branch of a study...
...statesmen, their construction and effectiveness; a comparison of the methods of each - a practical study, in other words, of the theory of oratory. There will be students for such a course as there are students now for the courses in poetry and prose and English grammar; students who would like the study for its own sake as well as students who, intending to become debaters or preachers, would take it for its practical treatment of important orations. We have already a course in Elocution and if this half course were added given perhaps by the instructor in Elocution - it seems...
...plays the B. A. A. eleven on Jarvis this afternoon at 3.30. As the game scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 12, has been cancelled, to-day's game is left as the last of the season to be played in Cambridge. The make-up of the eleven looks very much like the one which will meet Yale on the 19th...