Word: profound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...methods of physical education is a glowing commendation of the American system of intercollegiate contests. It is a recognition of the effectiveness and benefits of our system, and also a reputation of those who regard intercollegiate games as an ovil influence. If the Germans, after a study characteristically profound, find that our athletic system may serve as a model for theirs, we may safely conclude that the American colleges have developed an institution from which the students and the colleges are deriving great advantages...
Professor Shorey is pre-eminently the most brilliant of the American Hellenists of his generation. He is a profound student of Plato and has written several remarkable books, among others "On Plato's Theory of Ideas," "The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic," and "The Unity of Plato's Thought...
...perhaps unnecessary to speak of the unique position which this truly great artist holds in the theatrical world. His fame, which is international rests on solid achievements, refinement of delivery, literary insight, and profound study of character. Let me only say that I count it among the great memories of my student days to have seen him in such parts as Byron's "Manfred," Bjornson's "Advokat Berendt," or as Shylock, Mephisto and Wallenstein. The part of Rabbi Sichel in the play to be performed here is one of his very best, and, on account of its naturalness, is particularly...
...different scales. This arrangement seems just to all concerned except in one particular. In publishing the Rank List it is scarcely fair to print for the same course an undergraduate's A without differentiating it from the B of a graduate whose knowledge may be far broader and more profound. It would be an easy matter to distinguish these two classes of marks, and base the grades upon a standard of progress instead of absolute attainment...
Thomas Leonard Livermore, soldier, lawyer, man of affairs, and writer; who almost in boyhood fought in the Civil War; now a profound student of its history; pre-eminent among statisticians of the conflict...