Word: storm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetical career of Burns may be divided into three periods. The first ends with the publication of his first book of songs in 1786. It took by storm young and old alike. Although at first sight it seems of limited compass, the few notes in it of absolute sincerity make it great. During the period he was the poet, preacher and prophet of the peasants, of whom he was one. His power of sympathy overflowed upon all things...
...spite of the driving storm a large audience gathered in Sanders Theatre to the fourth in the series of lectures by Professor Royce. He spoke in a very interesting way of hypnotism in relation to the psychology of imitation. He finds hypnotism nothing essentially different from the normal mental processes, the peculiarity being that the imitative faculty is exercised under conditions in which the ordinarily prominent self-assertiveness of the will is in abeyance. The hypnotized state closely resembles that of normal drowsiness or sleep, with the addition of a peculiar susceptibility to suggestions of the hypnotizer...
Although the winter is nearly over, if is not too late to say a word of protest in regard to the condition of the paths in the yard. Every time that there has been a storm this winter, six or seven laborers have been set to work to clear off the board walks and have done so in as feeble and incomplete a way as could only be equalled by the New York Cleaning Department. Absolutely no attention is paid to the paved or dirt walks or the entrance to Massachusetts or Harvard, which have been today as so often...
...spite of the driving storm last night a large number listened to one of the most interesting lectures yet given by Mr. Black in his course on English Literature. The subject was Alexander Pope. "It is necessary," he said, "in studying any author to consider carefully not only his life in connection with his works, but also the the life and political conditions of his time. There is always an intimate connection between the poetic and political life of any period and of none is this more true than of the Elizabethan time...
...grand tribute to Phillips Brooks that even the storm could not keep St. John's Memorial Chapel from being filled last evening, when Bishop Clark of Rhode Island spoke of Phillips Brooks as he had known him in the pulpit, in the bishopric, in his life...