Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact, to antedeluvian poets or appreciations of literature which but for the efforts of the writer, would probably never, be unearthed. The first article particularly the "Ph.D. Octopus," by William James, strikes one as being vital and altogether human. The statement that only a man of evident native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess...
...state that the worship of the god originated in Thessaly and was carried to Argolis by men driven from home by pressure from the north. The shrine held an important place in ancient literature. Even Aristophanes, who burlesques the methods of the priests, seems to have believed in the power of the god. According to official records, lately discovered, the patient slept in the shrine over night, and in every instance "at dawn went away cured...
...Schumann Concerto brilliantly performed by Madame Bloomfield-Zeisler, and three well-selected orchestral numbers made last night's Symphony concert one of great interest. Tschaikowsky's G minor Suite was especially acceptable, and the last movement, the tema con variaxioni, could not well have been equalled in power of composition and execution...
...workshop his masterful faculty at once asserted itself. Then for three years he lived at the Casa Medici where, under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, he had opportunity for personal contact with the most vigorous and influential minds of his age; and was enabled to feel the full power of the mighty intellectual movement of the Renaissance...
...Largo, superbly conducted by Mr. Gericke, several of Brahms' Hungarian Dances, with their strange, irregular rhythm, and Wagner's wonderfully emotional introduction, "Love Death," from "Tristan and Isolde." The soloist, Miss Winifred Smith, played the first movement of Bruch's 2d violin Concerto and a Ballade by Henschel, with power and expression...