Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...partisan to be good instructors. It is, however, precisely this intelligent insight into current politics which the Society for Political Education seeks to give to its members. The reason why Harvard men, particularly, should join this society, is that the University has always played an important part in the movement among educated men to enter politics. The Society for Political Education is an off-shoot of this movement, and, as such, should be encouraged by Harvard...
...fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that it has been called after him who was the leader of the movement-the age of Poggio. The fall of Constantinople, which brought a fresh supply of exited Greeks to Italy, some laden with manuscripts. gave an additional stimulus to the work. The invention of printing brought with it the power not only of multiplying these precious manuscripts indefinitely, but of putting their...
...humanitarian studies-literature, philosophy and political science-which has to do most broadly with man's concerns-with his concerns as a social being, has been neglected the longest so far as actual academic institutions go. The watchword, which best represents the spirit of the new movement which is on its way to revolutionize the old state of things in this study, is Freeman's well-known definition of History as past Politics; Politics as present History. This is the principle which animates the new study. Its method is found in an adaptation of the modern scientific method of Agassiz...
...best works. It not only gives evidence of the scholarship to be expected of a Harvard professor, but of originality of invention and rarefelicity in modulation and instrumentation, especially in the second movement, which with its broad flowing melody and really exquisite orchestral coloring, is a thing that any contemporary European composer might be proud...
...piano solos showed considerable technical skill; but in the first, a nocturne by Chopin, he did not quite reach all the sentiment of the thing; his rendering of the Mazurka however was much more satisfactory. The success of the meeting however from an artistic of view was the movement from the Judassohn trio, played by Messrs. Hillerbrand, Loeb and Palmer: it was exceedingly well done, and evinced not only a high degree of technical skill and careful finish, but a fine artistic feeling that was satisfactory...