Word: moves
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good points. "The Voice of Mastery" describes a conflict between the sense of obligation to the marriage vow and passion for a woman who recognizes and inspires the man's literary ambition. The analysis of the man's feminine poetical temperament (represented as sometimes stimulated by preprandial cognac) is careful; the style...
...hope. And yet, he said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world has produced, skepticism is less satisfactory than the opposite view. Dying flowers rise again...
...instructors in Education, heretofore affiliated with the Division of Philosophy, now constitute a Division of Education, with Professor Hanus at its head. This move assigns to the study of education its appropriate place among other University studies. The courses in social ethics have been assigned to a separate Department of Social Ethics, with Professor Peabody at its head, under the Division of Philosophy...
...constructing the modern tragedy, said Professor Smyth, the author explains both cause and effect, while the ancient poet, taking it for granted that the audience understands the antecedent causes of the characters he enstages, depicts only the tragedy. The ancient author can, therefore, move with greater deliberation in evolving the catastrophe, and can find scope for lyric reflection on the relation between divine law and its infringement by the hero whose overthrow he is constructing...
...expected that the buildings will be opened to the American Medical Association, at the time of its annual meeting in Boston from June 5 to 8, for a thorough inspection and for some of its meetings. The School will move its apparatus during the summer vacation and will open its year at the same time as the College term in September...