Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than capable of standing on its feet and challenging admiration because of its force. The author goes deeply into the implications of Demosthenes' failure. In this final ruin of Greece into a diluted varnish spread over the Oriental and Roman worlds, he sees the virtual end of the one manner of life that might, if it had stayed on its feet, have been the salvation of the world. Demosthenes is Prometheus borne down by Chaos and Old Night; and only flick-ford's book is the chapter on "The Destroyer" where he assesses Darwin's work in its relation...
...with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...
...feeling of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman, that Princeton cares more for athletic victories than for clean sportsmanship...
...further feeling among certain Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...because there is no incentive; under the voluntary system, for anybody who wants to read to do his reading there. No man goes to chapel except from a spontaneous desire to participate in public devotion; the atmosphere is more reverent than in the average church. And the contrast in manner between the voluntary worshipers at Harvard and the constrained worshipers at Williams is simply appalling. Harvard men come into the chapel as into the house of God; Williams men, hurried, swarming, newspaper-landen, come into it as into a Bronx Park express...