Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...face of present conditions. Never was there a time when English style needed so sorely the influence of the carefully wrought sentences of Athens and Rome. Never was there a time when young men needed so sorely a training in that mental concentration and in those orderly ways of thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form the corner stone of the humanities, they fulfill their highest function in affording...
...most interesting of the many character sketches appearing in the book is that of the section-man represented as deeply pondering in thought as to whether he shall give his anxious charge an E minus or an E plus...
...happily free as is also the interesting treatise by Mr. Forest Izard '08. The editorials are vivacious in their treatment of topics which are not dead but robustly alive. The comment on "Sophomore English," for instance, contains a good deal of interesting news as well as some sound thought. Mr. Izard's notes on the D. U. Production of "Henry IV" is learned and perhaps necessarily long. But the article on "Minor Sports--and Sportsmanship," by a native Greek, "the strongest man at the University of Pennsylvania," is awkward in expression. Mr. Dorizas, though the strong man at Penn...
Professor Pound has seen from the first and clearly understood the responsibility of the law schools of the country; namely, that they are the laboratories of juristic thought, and the place where the science of remodelling American jurisprudence should be carried...
...opaque scumbles suggests that of the great Venetian figure painters, applied to landscape. The whole picture is wonderfully luminous and transparent, and the delicate plays of light are very subtly and convincingly expressed. Most remarkable perhaps is the expression of existence in three dimensional space achieved by the carefully thought out design and the calculated execution...