Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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rent, etc. After the lecture proper there is a general discussion of the actual application of these principles by the socialists and the followers of Henry George...
...gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which God has thought fit to endow him; but he can no more trim the natural power within him to a pattern than he can alter his stature. Each man is different from...
...Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that his task becomes almost an unconscious one, and his own instinct can perhaps best guide...
...plan of an Intercollegiate Debating Union now bids fair to be successful, and if proper mangement is given to the movement, we see no reason why it should not reach a thoroughly firm basis. It meets a need of the times, and the ready cooperation which has been given by other universities evidences how general is this need. University men are becoming conscious of a certain lack of proportion in the attention given to their different pursuits and are seeking, in various ways, to obtain the needed balance...
There is need of a board walk across Holmes Field. The number of men who must each day cross the field in order to practice in the Carey Building is large, and there is no good reason why proper accommodations should not be provided. The fact that only a slight amount of artificial flooding would make the field a pond is sufficient indication of its condition. The cost of the walk would be small and the convenience given would certainly be large...