Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The general subject of the lectures, which will be given on Mondays and Fridays in Emerson D, will be "The Doctrine of God." The subjects of the separate lectures are "Man's Experience of God", April 23: "The Christian Experience of God", April 27; "The Idea of God in Christian...
So transcendent is this achievement that the Chamber of Deputies fell meekly into line, last week, although for the past three weeks both the Radicals and Socialists have carried on a furious heckling debate to demonstrate that their political strength has not waned, on the eve of the Parliamentary elections...
Director Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), Nobel Prizeman in physics for 1923 (for isolation and measurement of the electron): "I delivered three lectures on the Terry foundation at Yale University, on 'Evolution in Science and Religion.' I first showed the breaking...
In the opening talk the visiting classicist took as his subject "Tradition in Poetry." The classical tradition, he said, that descended from Greece was the true poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness...
Few French statesmen are more genuinely beloved. While his fellows clawed and slashed their bitter tscandal-strewn way to power, Gaston Doumergue disarmed his enemies and heartened his friends with a smile, proved by daily application his notable if not transcendent abilities, and was happily wafted up to the Presidency...