Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forth pretty plainly the principles on which one should learn this art; his ideas are sound and practical. The article of this issue relating most directly to college affairs is "Athletics at Cornell." The writer is evidently a partisan of Cornell for he favors her at every point, but nevertheless he gives us a very clear idea of the origin and rise of athletics at this university; he would have done well to offer some prediction as to the position in athletics which Cornell will hold in the future for it can hardly fail to be a prominent one. "Prospects...
...power of expression united to high moral power. Carlyle never judged a man to have faults if the inner spirit which inspired and ruled a man's life was pure and noble, and this spirit Goethe had in the highest degree. Goethe, of course, had his petty faults, but nevertheless he had lived as a man, he had lived a life of antique heroism and thus the existence of inherent faults in Goethe could be apparent only to the caviler. "Goethe had spots in his character, but spots are in the sun." Carlyle accepted Goethe in his skepticism...
...opening story, "Hic Jacet Sepultus," is an unfortunate production in every respect. It is conspicuous by its sensational style and slovenly English, which includes a wearisome use of the historical present and such expressions as "inscrutable weariness." The plot has certainly the merit of extreme originality, but is nevertheless decidedly unpleasant, and an unhealthy, toue pervades the whole story, the presence of which in a college periodical, is to be regretted. The author makes mistakes in the gender of his Latin principle and in his use of m'amie for mon ami and mon amie...
...definite point of view. He chose a text and threw a strong and steady light upon it. His horizon was wider even than that of St. Beuve's. Yet he sometimes fell into ambiguities, and was often led astray by his fondness for phrases. Arnold will always live, nevertheless, as the greatest English critic of the nineteenth century. Arnold's poetry is largely introspective. It is terse, melodious, and clear, but profoundly melancholy. No man's poetry was ever a better guide to his own higher life...
...before the small town equals the large one? The writer cannot perceive that as long as the small town does not gain more in actual numbers than the large one, it can never come any nearer to it than it was at the beginning. It is true nevertheless...