Word: spain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Spain has been misconceived by our ignorant tradition as much as any other country in the world. For us it has always been the land of riotous dance, gay color, tumultuous music. But in fact its hills are desolate, its color gray, the dress of its people largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain...
...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University...
...much pride, or perhaps is too foolish, to admit failure, and will cheerfully repeat his mistakes. "The Crimson Stain," by Mr. Burman, is a grim and hardly a convincing story of a penitent grave-snatcher. The same writer returns to the charge with "The Doctor from Spain." This time he develops an entertaining tale of the adventure of a pretended doctor; after the denouement he seems rather uncertain how to end his story. Mr. Parson has allowed himself hardly enough room, in "Captain Kidd and Crew," in which to manipulate his theme; and within his single page he wastes several...
...opinion confirmed our own, that such a movement could only be temporary; that as soon as the excitement had passed, the military training corps in the colleges and universities would cease to hold their student volunteers. We had ourselves tried the experiment at the opening of the war against Spain and had seen it fail as soon as the first flush of excitement was over. We knew that many other colleges and universities had had similar experiences...
...accordingly receive credit in the award of degrees with distinction: J. Auslander '17, "Critique of Herbert Spencer's Data of Ethics'"; P. Bradley '16, "Efficient Bill-Board Regulation"; R. Bruce '17, "The Long-and-Short-Haul Clause Since 1890"; F. Butler '16, "The Hohenzollern candidacy for the throne of Spain"; S. K. Fairbanks '17, Blake's theories of art as applied to his writings"; W. Goettling '16, "The outcome of government regulation with particular references to prices and railway rates"; W. E. McCurdy '16, "Taine as an historical theorist"; K. B. Murdock '16, "Notes on 'L'Ancien Regime...