Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...comparing of the poetic product at large." This involves an analysis of poetry with the view of determining its essential characteristic, which, the author decides, is rhythm. As will be seen, the strictness of the above conclusion bars out all so-called "poetic prose," such as the nobler passages in the Old Testament of the Bible. Indeed this result is necessary to the coherence of the idea which runs throughout the work, that poetry is the outward sign of the social sense in man, indicated by "the consent of rhythm," and not implying, in its primitive forms at least...
...September Graduates' Magazine opens with an article by Wayne MacVeagh, h.'01, on "The Value of Ethical Ideals in American Politics." With due allowance for an age of business, the author points out how a return to the nobler ethical standards of our ancestors would help in solving the recurring questions of the time, such as the race problem in the South, and the relation of capital and labor. Moral courage in public life is essential; for, referring to its absence he says: "As one example, take our attitude toward the corrupt use of money in our elections...