Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last answer to the question, whether Bacon or Shakespeare. There are, however, writers whose life and work proceed hand in hand in such a way that each new work is on its face a distinct confession of the author's artistic creed and his experience in a certain period of his life. That is the case of a German author, who has within the last few years entered America with several translations: Thomas Mann...
There are two periods in man's life, or at least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
Increasingly it becomes evident that college faculties and administrations will no longer view with intense alarm such experiments in undergraduate scholastic responsibility as the new Reading Period Plan...
...extra-curriculum activities in recent years would be a fascinating and enlightening subject for careful study. For the moment it does not matter. The swing is actually going on. In its broad sweep it was discussed and approved by Professor Lovett. Quite happily Professor Edgell has placed the Reading Period Plan in its proper relationshiup with the general tendency...
...devious complexities which constitute a schedule of courses may make it necessary to postpone the beginning German examination until the end of the period. The exigencies of examination groups are often disheartening. But even considering this, one can only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...