Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...while still young, to follow the pursuit of philosophical studies, the lecturer dwelled for considerable time upon the philosopher's early promise and swift development. When nineteen he wrote a valuable book upon ethics and before he was thirty years of age he was considered the most prominent philosophical critic in France...
Guyau's fame does not rest upon his constructive ability. He really had no system of philosophy. The best that can be said of him is that he adhered consistently throughout his life to a few, disconnected fundamental principles of ethics and metaphysics. He was great as a critic and as an analyzer...
...letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses of English scenery are many and charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed. The letters of Flaubert note...
...argument. Speeches in rebuttal will be limited to five minutes. There will be three judges selected by the Yale freshmen from a list submitted by Harvard. The list is: Dr. Bates, of the M. I. T., Professor Churchill, of the Andover Theological Seminary, Mr. Henry A. Clapp, literary critic of the Boston Advertiser, Dr. W. C. Collar, principal of the Roxbury Latin School, Rev. S. W. Crothers, D. D., of Cambridge, Rev. E. Winchester Donald, of Boston, Mr. C. E. Fish, ex-principal of Exeter, Rev. Edward Peabody, D. D., principal of Groton School, and ex-Governor William E. Russell...
...Moscow. In some humorous quotations from a contemporary the lecturer showed the sort of philosophical intoxication in which the younger generation of the time lived. A prominent part in this movement which prepared the literary soil from which the great Russian novelists were to arise belongs to the critic Belinsky...