Word: paganization
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...usual custom by which the winners of the Bowdoin Prizes are invited to read their dissertations in public, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors this year, will read his dissertation this evening at 7.30, in Sever 5. The subject is "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time...
Reading of Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time. Mr. H. E. Addison. Sever...
Class 3. (a.) A prize of seventy-five dollars to Harold Ethelbert Addison, of the junior class, for a dissertation on the Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan reaction of his time...
...self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr, for he interposed his life to save his disciples. Christ's life could not be destroyed by physical forces because...
...Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things in the picture-like sense that Keats does. Almost all of these gifts are found however in a less degree in both these poets. Browning...