Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessity is some one to start the movement. The faculty will never raise their veto unless they are asked. Occasional editorials in college papers or hints in student assemblies have no weight. What is needed is an aroused public sentiment, such as will show itself in mass meetings and monster petitions. This course was what won our voluntary prayer system, and this course alone will unshackle our nine from its present disadvantages, so that it may meet Yale and Princeton on an equal footing. We must begin at once. The faculty will, no doubt, refuse. In that case we must...
...yields to a more beautiful one. The Greek craftsman was fully aware of the limitations of his art, and never tried to represent such difficult themes as the shield of Achilles. His skill was, however, shown in the way in which he overcame the inherent clumsiness of the sea monster which usually accompanied Thetis. In the later vases the artist tried to give the effect of a foreground and background by the use of foreshortening; but, owing to the fact that he was confined to a single color, the attempt was not successful. The capture of Troy, as described...
...where he does appear at the close of the "Inferno," he is no longer the spiteful imp of human or even less than human size, going about the earth to play practical jokes and catch the souls of the unwary. He is now a super-human monster, vague, mysterious and terrible...
...School Cleveland battalion will march on Wednesday evening in the monster democratic and independent parade...
...monster indignation meeting is to be held at Lynn to demand Lowell's recall...