Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two brief quotations serve sufficiently to show the spirit and the style of the work. Not the least reason why this type of history gains such a large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously...
Incidentally, Mr. Ryan, besides knowing the King's English and Harvard's football, also knows his college spirit. Vide, for instance the following, taken from his account of the Penn game...
...geauteous evening, kalm and klear, although this rom is a biti close and shomewhom I feel filled with a spirit of kindness toward everyone. The sight of this halph emptee botle before me bringgs tears to my eyes bekau%e I shink of alll the pore people in the woorld who are ztarving. 1's pozzezions are always transchient howwever even this fine giftt is schlipping into eternitty"s and oonly a bitt remains too be absoldfed igto theehereafter. Ztill if we kan remain cheery %oe)) and blithe az I am ouur trobles will passs...
...from his own desire to investigate the field. And it is this tendency which would have delighted Charles Eliot Norton--for this is the manner with which he himself approached the subject. He loved the Fine Arts and anyone who shared that love was to him a kindred spirit. Through his own enthusiasm he led others to a like point of view...
...unthinkable that Oxford should resent the arrival on the campus of the men with the cameras and the flaring breeches and the intention of "acquainting mankind with what Oxford stands for; to set forth in moving pictures the essential spirit of Oxford." Yet the Oxford "Isis" demands in a familiar style why "we should allow ourselves to be depicted as the trumpery actors in a roseate spectacle for colonial nincompoops...