Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. H. H. Boyeson of Columbia, in a recent lecture, pronounced Shelley pre-eminently the poet of desire and idealism...
...attend the French readings to be given in March and April. To understand modern French literature, it is evidently necessary to know a little of what Frenchmen have written in the past; and the subjects of the six readings are well chosen, both to illustrate the work of pre-eminent masters and to serve as an introduction to a study of French art - surely a fine art - in literature; and not only ought those attend who wish merely to get a sketch of French literature, or an introduction to it, but those, too, who would have a knowledge...
...always contain suggestive reading for those who are interested in the advance and improvement of teaching, as well as in teaching itself. The constant effort to seek out and put into practice better methods of instruction, or methods more in keeping with the needs of the time, has been pre-eminently a characteristic of the present administration at Harvard. This was well pointed out by President Angell of Michigan in his after-dinner speech at the Harvard celebration last November. He alluded to the debt that all American colleges owe to the old university for the bold spirit of experiment...
...Reformation and its forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten, few are wanting. The mystical teachers, too, of the pre-Reformation period - Savonarola in Italy, Tauler and Geiler of Kaisersburg in Germany - are well represented by original impressions...
...offer to our readers for evident reasons. Two editors will be elected to the paper at the close of the mid-years. All who wish to be considered candidates of such election are requested to contribute what they desire to be judged by, as good work is the pre-requisite of an election. Let no man be dissuaded from the competition through false modesty, as an editorship is open to any one who proves himself worthy...