Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce the Greek religion to a set of anthropological phenomena, but we may seek to illuminate such modern governmental tendencies as socialism by the light of Plato's Republic and the Spartan system...
...current issue, although the art of writing editorials has yet to be acquired with further experience of the joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard on the President...
...make-up" of this issue, however, suffers from the ragged composition of pages like that depicting hockey players or that entitled "A Page of Preparedness." Apparently cuts have been gathered from all sorts of publications and thrown together into a photographic hash for the ocular indigestion of Illustrated readers. The page of pictures called "Tumbling Stunts" has as many virtues as the others cited have vices. Every photograph of the "tumblers" is uniform in size, arranged in an artistic group, and reproduced by the same cut. Cannot the Illustrated set this page as a standard...
...Turner's middle period, in which he abandons the dark tonality of his earlier sea-pieces, but has not yet adopted the more impressionistic handling of his last period. The painting is carefully executed according to a very definite method of procedure, and the surface is beautiful in quality like those of his earlier works. In paintings of this type, Turner's method in its combination of under-painting, transparent glazes, and opaque scumbles suggests that of the great Venetian figure painters, applied to landscape. The whole picture is wonderfully luminous and transparent, and the delicate plays of light...
Henry James, famous author and brother of the equally famous philosopher, William James, died in London last night at the age of 72 years. He had been in poor health for some time. Famous the world over, he has been called the novelist who wrote like a philosopher. His early education was received in France and Switzerland, but he returned to this country and studied for a time in the University Law School. In 1911 he was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University...