Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring +++ continue in some of them. The University of Chicago will undoubtedly draw its numbers more and more strongly from...
...life to be found in the minds of men half-mad with disappointed passion. His impatience of conventional life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin to the Romantic poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond them. He was like the Romantic poets, too, in the fact that it was to nature he turned to find escape from the crude actualities of every-day life; and it is probably through his share...
...difficulty is overcome and there is a variety and pleasure in outdoor exercise. But it requires not a little will power to keep up a constant attendance at the gymnasium when the work there consists of a dull routine of exercise on various machines with no definite object in view, and many a man gives it up after the first week. And yet this exercise is greatly needed...
These subjects today are growing more and more important, and Mr. Peabody, from his experience in them as well as by his study of them is well fitted to lay them before us. He is treating them from an historical, a philosophical, and a practical point of view; and to any man who has interest in these subjects his lectures will be found to be of special interest and instruction...
...Advocate in its last number has touched upon a timely subject in connection with the probable disposition of the Fogg bequest, which was given with a view of providing the University with a suitable Museum of Fine Arts. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the writer of the article. However admirable is the spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased...