Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curious that Montaigne's Essays is the only speculative book which Shakespeare can be proved to have read. Dante in one sense fought a losing battle, for his life-long endeavor was to keep the thread of tradition unbroken, to reform through the past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry...
...committee the revised course of study is now on trial, and if found adapted to the purposes of good scholarship it will supercede the former course. The mechanical school has been given a more important place in the curriculum, and its advantages to our boys are steadily growing. In spite of the general business depression, places are readily found for those who have made suitable proficiency in this branch of their studies. In addition to the instruction heretofore given in drawing, in pattern making, in foundry work, in metal work and in theoretical and applied electrics, arrangements are being made...
...Padua the antique first appeared in unmistakable form. Donatello is a representative of this style of art, and had great influence over Mantegina who is noted for the statuesque appearance of his works. He was a faithful student of nature, especially of the human figure, but in spite of this he never seems to be able to give the warmth of life to his work. Although in this respect he fails to procure absolute truth, his figures show great force and originality, they are nobly powerful, beautiful in their stern, silent repose and in the candid straightforward convictions which they...
...report of Dean Langdell of the Law School shows that the past year has been a successful one in spite of the falling off in the number of new men, which is more than accounted for by the new rule requiring every student not a graduate of a college to pass the admission examination as a condition of entering the school...
...spite of the severity of the storm last evening, Sever 11 was filled when Mr. Copeland began his lecture on "The Drama of Yesterday," and, as he added, "The Day Before...