Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With radiant smile, whose eyes profound and keen...
Victor Hugo though himself a great heretic in religion, but here again he exaggerated. Probably, indeed, he would have refused to accept any credal statement about the Christ, but he had nevertheless a deep reverence for the biblical story and a profound recognition of its influence and benefits. He believed in God and immortality and constantly avowed his belief in His works...
...shows us human nature in untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...
...moment agree. He was earnest and zealous in his work as a teacher, and became deeply interested in the promotion of improved methods of teaching the Classics, in the development of higher instruction in the University, and in the advancement of productive scholarship. His learning was varied and profound; his mind was vigorous and characterized by an uncommon quickness and agility; his intellectual curiosity was insatiable. Both through his books and in personal intercourse with teachers and students he strove to inculcate better methods of reading Latin and Greek, and he was the first to apply the test of translation...
Professor N. S. Shaler gave an illustrated lecture last night on the subject of "The Environment of Harvard." This word, environment, said Professor Shaler, has a profound significance. Not only does it imply the physical surroundings of man, but what is still more important, their effect upon his daily life and gradual development. In primitive times this development was dependent on the extent to which individuals and races were affected by the operation of natural laws, one sort of environment. In later times man has to a large extent been able to govern his own environment by artificial means...