Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Religious faith was the dominant note and the inspiration of mediaeval art; on the other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial tone. In the fifteenth century this was less noticeable, but in the sixteenth century art became very artificial...
Judging from the rude and puerile conduct of certain members of Fine Arts 4, it would seem that such a course in manners should be prescribed, for evidently a sense of decorum can not be inspired in these individuals by the mere association with gentlemen...
...Soissons. He takes up one side after another of American life, and devotes a chapter to it; such, for example, as the ones on American women, art, music, and newspapers. His point of view is that of the conventional French visitor who considers American men as mere money-making machines, and who thinks that the ambition of every American girl is to marry a foreign nobleman. He has been told many marvellous tales about our life which he has immediately written down as true...
This practice of Faculty coaching, Harvard believes, leads to a perversion of the purpose of the debates. With unlimited Faculty assistance the student speakers become mere mouthpieces through which the Faculty is heard and the debate developes into a contest between the Faculties of the two universities, not between the students. It is as if in an intercollegiate chess match each member of the two teams should have behind his chair an expert chess player to plan his moves for him; and he himself should do nothing but move the pieces from one square to another...
...have at hand a volume entitled "Mornings in the College Chapel" (Houghton Mifflin and Co.), by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody. It contains a collection of short addresses on personal religion, delivered by Dr. Peabody at morning service. Each of these little monographs evolves briefly one distinct thought, a mere suggestion to be worked out to its conclusion by each individual and applied to his own particular needs. A large variety of topics are touched on, all of them personal and direct to a high degree, and treated in Dr. Peabody's characteristically straight-forward manner...