Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
...undeniable that throughout the nineteenth century, in fact even earlier, ever since the influence of Roussean and others of like mind began to make itself felt, the peoples of Western culture have been living in an atmosphere of steadily increasing disregard of the Real--the Real in the sense of that fundamental essence which makes the animal known as Homo sapiens a human being it is now not customary--nor fashionable for a man of letter or an artist, to seek out the essentially human standard by means of his imagination, and then create in accordance with it. Standards...
...Social Policy," by Professor G.W. Allport '19 of Dartmouth; "Money in Banking" and "Corporations," by Professor M.M. Bober, of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; "German Composition and Conversation," by Professor A.W. Boesche of Cornell; "Principals of Educational Psychology," by Professor Laurence Carmichael of Brown; "Chancer" and "American Literature in the Nineteenth Century," by Professor E.D. Snyder of Haverford; "Musical Appreciation" and "Romantic Period in Music," by Professor R.D. Welch of Smith. "Relations of China and Japan with Western States," by C.W. Young of Leiden University, Leiden, Holland...
Work on the 1931 Red Book is speedily coming to completion, according to members of the Board who are putting together the nineteenth volume of the-series...
...Nineteenth Century American Writers of the South and West Bret Harte", Professor Murdock, Harvard...