Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes, is true for the college freshman of today, who undoubtedly receives a truer conception and a better preparation for the four years on which he is about to embark than the youth in a similar position twenty or thirty years ago. Preparatory schools have assumed a somewhat more collegiate atmosphere, scholarship is on a high plane and college athletic contests, which most men planning to enter college attend, offer a chance to see a bit of college life at first hand, although we must admit it is a rather small part and one which may lead to a serious...
...originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep into philosophy; another, Heldenleben (Life of a Hero), was admittedly satirical autobiography, with realistic passages presenting the jabbering of critics. Then came, perhaps thirdly, though somewhat intermittent and extended in date, his fine concert songs (lieder), the equal in art of the great of all times in that field. Fourth was opera, which at first he twice essayed with failure...
...public may like to be fooled; it is often considered perfectly legitimate to fool them. We rather balk, though, at bricks gilded with piety. Swindling is never commendable; when supported by ministers of the Gospel and the sanctity of the Church, it is somewhat shocking...
...been the object of the editors to use the possibilities in the way indicated and often the results have been gratifying. Without, however, a wide knowledge of the reactions of their public, the progress has been somewhat in the dark. It is the purpose of this editorial to invite comment from the readers of the BOOKSHELF. The editors will be grateful for the recommendations of particular books: but they desire suggestions which bear on the general plan of the undertaking. To the extent that responses do this, they will clarify what otherwise must remain very indefinite reasoning on the part...
...clock this morning in Sever 6, Professor Burkhard will lecture on Lenau and two contemporaries somewhat related in spirit, Eduard Morike and Germany's foremost poetess. Annette von Droste-Hulshoff...