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...like President Meiklejohn of Amherst, who have long advocated similar changes as elements in a necessary reform will welcome this a precursor of still better things. The tremendous budget and still vaster income of the modern college athletic association is so vast as the be at once a great danger and potentially great blessing. Any course which unites more closely the academic and athletic interests of such a community is decidedly for the good, and strictly in accordance with the cleaning up policy generally in vogue at present. Yale News
...Weston continues to instruct us how much we have missed by not knowing the music of Wilhelm Friedman Bach, who is called the "direct precursor of Beethoven." It would be interesting to know how much Beethoven knew about him. But for Mr. Weston, few of us could give much account of him today...
...traits of a whole class, made his works reflect the whole panorama of society. Jealousy is a trait to which he devoted much attention. Laying his finger on the spot most open to ridicule, he pilloried social characteristics that are as prominent now as then. He was a true precursor of the Revolution, in that he attacked the nobles, not as individuals, but as a class...
Popular Science Monthly--"Anaximander, Earliest Precursor of Darwin," by C. R. Eastman '90: "The Cause, Nature, and Consequence of Eyestrain," by G. M. Gould...
...first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed many tears. The latter was the real funnel through which romanticism invaded Russian poetry. He was the real precursor of Russia's greatest poet-Poushkin...