Word: loree
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which are the engrossing problems of the present; it is, finally, the vision which sees beyond the pleasant conventions and pretentious optimism of the present and breaks forth into a life which is so unlike that of ordinary...
...those who remain behind are striving to do their best, so as to take the place of the men who have gone before, when Mars has given them up as a pawn, in the great game. The men at home are dropping the philosophical volume, the poets' lore, for the slide rule and the law of the chemist, in answer to the call of stern necessity. The arts are neglected while the sciences come into their own. And for the moment perhaps, this is best while Mars' cloud lowers on the horizon...
...member of the Modern Language Association of Great Britain, American Folk-Lore Society and of many clubs in St. Louis. He is also a member of the Harvard Club of Boston. He is editor of Synonyms in the New International Dictionary, in association with Professor G. L. Kittredge '82. He has also edited a number of Shakespeare's plays and been a frequent contributor to American and foreign philosophical and literary journals...
...this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there is no pre-established...
...anxious mother who once wrote to Dean Hurlbut to please see that her son wore overshoes regularly was far wiser in the lore of Cambridge than tradition paints her. After all; it is not entirely absurd to ask that the ruling powers pay some heed to the condition of our feet,--by minding what it is that we walk on, and by ceasing to play at watchful walting with Providence...