Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...certain localities, of which this is one, to decry party organizations. All party machinery and party organizations are condemned as inherently bad. My purpose is to consider whether this attitude has any sound justification, either historically or practically, for its existence. As modern political government, conducted through the medium of political parties is peculiarly the work of the English speaking people, I shall not go outside the history of that people in this branch of the discussion...
...Andover Academy have just started a new literary magazine, called the Phillips Andover Mirror, which is to be published in seven numbers yearly and is to be modelled in form after the Harvard Monthly. The paper is intended to foster the interests of the school and to afford a medium for the publication of literary work done by the students. In order to ensure the personal interest of as many men as possible, a board of contributors chosen on consideration of literary merit, has been created and from this broad all vacancies in regular editorships will be filled. The Mirror...
...Hexameter verse the best medium for a translation of Homer into English? (Matthew Arnold, on translation of Homer...
...country. The idea seems to have been taken from the games of the Greeks when that nation was in all its glory. The plan has been much discussed in England and has received almost universal approbation. The Oxford Boat Club has announced its intention of competing, so through this medium might be brought about the much talked of international boat race. The object of the proposers now is to have the matter talked about and discussed as widely as possible...
...translation is in prose and any discussion upon its merit involves the question of metrical form versus prose as a medium of translation...