Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact the fundamental belief which gives rise to asceticism is the belief that life is a tragedy and that we are in this world, not to avoid its hardships, but to face them bravely, even to encounter them voluntarily. In modern times the only expression of this feeling is in the military asceticism. This spirit surely should have another outlet; and much instruction may be gained on this point from the lives of the old ascetics...
...before the Lowell Institute of Boston, last winter, has been collected into book form under the title "The Rights of Man." These essays trace the growth of the Hebraic democracy from its earliest stages to the present day; describing the downfall of the Roman policy of imperialism and the rise of the rights of the people, religious, educational, political and industrial. The author believes that the United States represent the highest modern development of democracy; accordingly the problems, the possibilities and the dangers which present themselves to the members of a democracy are treated by him in the specific forms...
...life was as simple as the rooms. The students were obliged to rise for prayer at 6 o'clock in summer and at 7 or 7.30 in winter. The work was almost all required, and almost entirely conducted by means of recitations instead of lectures. There were only two hundred and seventy-five men in the whole College, and a man through his classes, not only became well acquainted with his classmates, but came to know thoroughly their moral and intellectual capabilities. The College life was much closer than today...
...Melville-Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States; Seth Low, for many years president of Columbia University; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many years editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine; William Dean Howells, formerly editor of the Atlantic Monthly, author of the "Rise of Silas Lapham" and other works; George Harri, president of Amherst College...
...serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched in a tone the reverse of the grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition in view he traces the history of development of light verse from Elizbethan times to the present, reviewing the work of the men who have been most adept in this formof poetry. Intermingled with the writer's own comments...