Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...certain carelessness and negligence which appeared in the writings of the leading men of this period brought about in 1850 a reaction which came at a most propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea...
...Taussig points out, Professor Dunbar was little known to the undergraduates of the present day, but his activity and industry were such as few men are capable of. Editor of a newspaper before he was thirty, first professor of Political Economy at Harvard, he again took up, after a period of fifteen years, the editorship of his old paper, and after the bustle and excitement of one of the most hotly contested presidential campaigns in the history of our country, again returned to the quiet of a life of teaching. As one of those who had a share in forming...
Beginning with this afternoon there will be no battery practice after 3.30. The men who have been working during the period 3.30-4 have been re-assigned as follows...
...History of Classical Studies. III. The French Period. Sixteenth Century. Professor Morgan. Sever...
...school reforms--or with a less question-begging title, school experiments or deteriorations--has been the tendency towards elective studies. We have on one side the desire to adjust the school work to the final purposes of the individual in practical life; which means beginning professional preparation in that period which has up to this time been given up to liberal education. We have on the other side the desire to adjust the school-work to the innate talents and likings of the individual; which means giving in the school-work no place to that which finds inner resistance...