Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lermontov is the most celebrated. Comparing him with his great contemporary, the lecturer defined Lermontov as "the poet of romantic pessimism." An important place in Russian poetry belongs to Koltsoff for having introduced into literature elements of popula language, and especially for having made the peasant's life an object of fiction, thus giving them the place they have since held in the development of Russian literature...
...second of his lectures on "Russian History and Literature," Prince Wolkonsky had a closely attentive and appreciative audience. The object of the lecture was that period of Russian intellectual culture when it enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed...
...popular mind athletic interest centers round the baseball and football teams and the crew. The undue prominence given to the few who engage in these sports has greatly deceived the public in regard to the athletic development of the many students engaged in gymnasium work. The great object in the physical development of students is to fit them for work in the mental world. The researches of scientists have shown that there is a reciprocal relation between body and mind...
Distance of the object from the plate plays a big part in cathode photography. The successful photographs of the human hand have been those where the palm was facing the cathode, which put the bones nearer the plate by a very little. The greatest interest in the experiments is because of its application to surgery. Glass can be easily detected in the hand and in the foot...
...bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance of the object from the surface. The last picture was one of a living human hand taken in Hamburg, Germany. It is the best picture ever taken and was exposed an hour...