Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proctor to proctor and treated much as copies of the Lampoon or Life might have been. Probably nothing could have been farther from the minds of the writers than the production of jokes and this unfair treatment of their work has been justly condemned. It would seem that men old enough to be graduates of College would be old enough to mind their own business. Certainly it arouses no friendly feeling in a man to see a blue book which has been prepared for fair examination, ridiuled by a proctor who sees something funny in every honest opinion...
...old Puritan regime was overthrown and the reaction was strong against solemnity and restraint. The succeeding literature showed little reverence or earnestness, but bubbled over with jollity...
Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore...
Dryden's most substantial benefit to literature was in his breaking away from the cumbrous classical expressions and forced metaphors with which the language was being strangled and in giving a strong impulse to the natural forms of expressions. Extravagant and fantastic in youth, his old age shows a clear and simple English, not very imaginative, not finely sentimental, but certainly strong, significant, graceful and forcible...
Modern Language Conference. Old Hindu predecessors of Mediaeval folktales. Professor Lanman. - Some notes on the beast fable. Professor Kittredge. Sever...