Word: strove
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reputation as of foremost excellence) I need not speak; but serious students of the fine arts must regret that of books like "Church Building in the Middle Ages" we could not have had more. As a teacher of the History of the Fine Arts in Harvard University Professor Norton strove, by directing attention to the finest historic monuments, to awaken an appreciation of the nature and worth of beauty, and to show that the greatest artistic achievements of past times have borne witness to what moral integrity and exalted ideals have entered into the make-up of peoples endowed with...
Schiller lived at a time when Germany was being torn gradually to pieces by the onslaught of Napoleonic imperialism. A few great men, notably Kant, Goethe and Schiller, remained to re-awaken the national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength...
...higher instruction in the University, and in the advancement of productive scholarship. His learning was varied and profound; his mind was vigorous and characterized by an uncommon quickness and agility; his intellectual curiosity was insatiable. Both through his books and in personal intercourse with teachers and students he strove to inculcate better methods of reading Latin and Greek, and he was the first to apply the test of translation at sight in the examinations for admission to Harvard College (in the Latin Grammar paper...