Word: view
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt Miss Jewett writes a better style and gives a larger, wiser, truer view of New England country people and New England country life. The lecture was followed with a reading of Miss Jewett's story entitled "Fame's Little...
...coasts of the world, lake shores, rivers and valleys, are represented by photographs, many of which have been taken from the point of view of the scientific geographer and geologist as well as from the point of view of the artist. A number of other views representing landscapes and many other points of scientific interest, as well as of scenic interest on account of the character of the photographs, are included in the exhibit...
...view of the approaching Harvard-Yale contest the debating clubs of the graduate departments have been more than usually active, and the preliminary contests will soon be held. The final competition will occur immediately after the April recess. A Thatcher prize of $75 will be awarded to that member of the academical department who most distinguishes himself at this latter contest. From the outcome of the Harvard-Princeton debate it is realized that Yale will have to make strenuous efforts if her representatives are to be victorious in the coming contest with Harvard, which will determine the supremacy in debating...
...unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...
...work; he wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease before nature, which he holds is only to serve man's purposes...