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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Claudius Claudianus and the Pagan Literary Reaction of the 5th century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin Prize Subjects. | 12/11/1891 | See Source »

...Reaction Against Ibsen" is a thoughtful essay on Ibsen's position at the present day - the attacks which have been made on certain characteristic features of his writings - and the justice of such onslaughts. After citing several passages from some of Ibsen's best-known plays to illustrate certain lines of thought with which some writers have lately picked flaws, the author states as his personal conviction that the hostile attitude of society towards Ibsen is only an illustration of that principle which is as old as life - the principle of self preservation, and further that "the cry that Ibsen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Monthly. | 11/11/1891 | See Source »

...Society last evening on the larger hopes that should now be held for the influence of Christianity. He spoke of the discouragement that St. Paul once felt in regard to the faith among the Thessalonians. Paul had passed through a period of severe mental strain, and, during the reaction, news had come to him that the Thessalonians were growing lax. He sent Timothy to them and expected him to bring back a bad reports, but to his joy it was the reverse; the Thessalonians had been misrepresented. It is often so; men grow moody over the outlook for the Christian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society. | 10/24/1891 | See Source »

...evening. Dr. Brooks said: A man that tries to be better than his world must contend with the misgivings of his own heart, and with the opposition of his neighbors. The standard of the time is determined by three things: the special needs of special times; the power of reaction and the power of some dominant mind. These things, however, are but temporary, and the result is a widely varying standard of morality. Necessarily in our estimate of men we make allowance for the age they lived in, but the man who would rise above his time must make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 4/20/1891 | See Source »

...Harvard Reaction" is a fairly clever sketch of the evolution of the typical Harvard junior, food of sports and the festal rites of Bloody Monday, from the chrysalis of the theorizing and dreaming sub-freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/20/1891 | See Source »

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