Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Edmund M. Morgan '02, Bus sey Professor of Law since 1925, has consented to serve as acting Dean during the coming year, he plans to return to his teaching at the end of that period...
...Conference was divided into three major sections, one on Social Sciences and Humanities, another on the Biological Sciences, and a third on the Physical Sciences. The latter two, stretching over the entire period of the Conference, consisted merely of papers delivered by outstanding scientists on the researches they have been currently pursuing; the first-named section, on the other hand, which did not start until the second week of the session, took the form of a well-integrated and novel plan for consolidating the various branches of learning concerned with the study of mankind as a whole...
After a detailed discussion of Prevost as a Romanticist, and of the influences of the period which swayed both him and others, Professor Hazard reaffirmed the absolute necessity of a close study of these influences in gauging a man or a period, and of relying on original investigation rather than taking the opinions of others. "To seek; to continue to seek . . . Not to swear by the words of the masters; but to return to the facts, and to the criticism of the facts" was the rigid creed he pronounced for literary historians to follow, if they wish to discover...
...become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing the facts; the second, or inhibiting period, marked by self-indulgence, wandering attention, faulty observation; the third, or paralyzing stage, when bodily disorders set in, ranging from stomach ulcers, hyperacidity, twitchings, tremors, stammering, to pyloric spasms, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia...
...wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...