Word: renders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...established thus far. Cases of expulsion and suspension are judged by the senate. Of course, the great value of the senate, as of the conference, is in the expression in an authoritative way of the sentiment of the college. The senate, however, has the power in many cases to render this sentiment the college...
...school such as is seldom found out of Italy, and calls for an elaboration and perfection of detail which cannot be secured so long as the lavishness of the public does not equal its critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed...
...least, he regards him as below his notice. He is a Hedonist. His aim is to live at all odds a happy life. If he sees misery in any form he becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render any aid to the poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit...
...gloss over an education, received as it is in an unwilling spirit, and carried on during a season of balls, operas, and theatres, skating rinks, etc., in a perfunctory manner, it is the duty of educators to speak out plainly, and to denounce everything that tends to render diplomas worthless, and bring colleges into contempt...
...present we have no reading room at College, this plan would fill that vacancy. And it would do more than this, for it would discourage the aimless reading of anything and everything which is found in a newspaper and would render more possible a connected understanding of the public events about which every student should know something...