Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dropped into the large, free college world, where study seems to be optional, so far as he can hear, and where he meets "new and alluring arguments for vice as an expression of fully developed manhood." His untried, unsettled character is put to the test, subjected to a strain under which it must either take form and strength or gradually give...
...meet this strain the boy must in some way be prepared; the school and the college must co-operate to lessen the violence of the transition. The main object of both school and college is the same-to establish character and to make that character more efficient through knowledge and mental discipline. The transition, then, should be merely the continuation in a wider field of a gradual growth already well started, There should be continuity of steadying, stimulating influences. At present, the only continuous influence of much force is athletics; but athletics, however open to criticisms for over-prominence...
...propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea of subordinating art to the artist...