Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Students in modern universities, he said, may be divided from a moral point of view into four classes: The first, those who are unaffected by temptation and whose lives are under the control of a superior being; the second, those who recognize evil, but fight with all that is in them to overcome it; the third those who drift about and do not contend with evil, either through thoughtlessness or because they have been defeated; and the last class, those who, overcome by temptation, are going to places in their moral and perhaps their physical nature. The question...
...eligible to active membership in the Union. The effect of this in changing the following sections of Article VII was passed over for a discussion of the question of dues. F. S. Arnold 2G., presented some interesting statistics, the result of a canvass made in several dormitories with a view to discovering the feelings of students in regard to the ten dollar dues. He explained that about twenty-five per cent more men would join under the five dollar dues than under the ten dollar dues. This he said was not accurately representative of the University, but was very suggestive...
...Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when the old civilization was giving way before the drastic methods of reconstruction...
There are also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...view of this plan, the proposed quadrangular race with the second crews of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell, has been definitely given...