Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...
...competitive features of the meet were Mr. Wiednhoeft's solos, the selections by the University Glee Club of New York, and the singing of Kremsu's old Netherland Folk Song, "The Prayer of Thanksgiving," by the 280 voices of the combined competing clubs, and the University Glee Club of New York. The effect of this beautiful an-them, sung by so large a male chorus, was truly remarkable and impressive...
Early in the fall, a collection of old clothing was taken under the supervision of the committee. This clothing has for the most part already been distributed amongst various philanthropic agencies, some of it even finding its way overseas to the war sufferers...
...this new play Mr. MacFarlane has for a vehicle a sweet but somewhat flimsy structure, mingling comedy with old style melodrama. The scene is laid in Scotland in the early nineteenth century and the costumes worn are quaint and attractive...
About 1800 old-style type was abandoned in England, owing to the influence of an Italian topographer, Bodoni. Bodoni has two books in the Williamson collection, a large folio volume and a small volume. The date of the former is 1791 and of the latter 1793. Ordinary text-type of today is patterned after Bodoni's original designs...