Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just ended. It will be voluntary as before and held only during the more quiet months, probably from December until the Easter recess. The character of the course will not be a definite one, at least not so far as to follow out a fixed line of thought. It is to be a series of informal talks conducted on a plan and with topics very similar to those in the course which proved so popular this spring. The range of subjects will be a wide one, appealing to many different tastes and yet probably interesting to all. Sometimes a single...
People formerly studied Greek and Latin customs for their superiority; they thought the Greeks and Latins a faultless race and accordingly reverenced all their works. We, on the other hand, regard the classics as the work of living authors and criticize their faults as we would an author of the present day. Lately classics have been seriously questioned as to their proper weight in mind training. We have no authentic knowledge that the Greeks and Latins were intellectual giants; in fact, if we were dropped down into Greek civilization, we should no doubt look upon their customs as those...
Dante and Petrarch do not belong to the same school. Dante was still of the mediaeval times, for he thought only of the universe and the city of God, and Virgil was interesting to him only because they led him through the universe. But Petrarch thought of the present world, the life of to-day, and the classics were interesting to him as expressions of men's lives at that time. Petrarch was a "humanist." Dante still clung to the religious beliefs and drawbacks of mediaeval times...
...opposed to democratic principles - (a) It prevents free thought and free speech: Nineteenth Cent., IV, 712. - (b) It defeats the people's will: Fort. R. XXX, 724 (1878). - (c) It centralizes power in the hands of a few: New Englander, XXXIV...
Frank Stanley Stebbins, 3rd year Law, was taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday afternoon suffering from an attack of appendicitis. An operation was immediately performed and it is thought he will recover...