Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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George Meredith still holds by the old theories and practices in his novels, so that it is a pleasure to see such a master handling old methods. In Beauchamp's Career and Diana of the Cross Ways we see the effects of passion, poetry and strength so commingled as to form a maize or thicket of difficulties similar to those which we encounter in Carlyle and Browning...
...large number of books, too old to be of much further use are being moved from Gore Hall to the basement of Appleton Chapel. More recent works are to be put in their places...
...This makes a total of 431,298 cnntents of the possession of the University, and if unbound pamphlets be included (as is the case in counting the volumes in many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records are singly counted. The American system is to count books as bound, and not to separate their component parts in the enumeration...
...large part of the lecture was devoted to a consideration of some of the disputes which are carried on with regard to the structure of the old Greek theatre. There were many illustrations by the stereopticon...
...least any to which admission is charged, are things of the past. We take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic Association officials do, will...