Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meaning of the Georgics" is a very appreciative study and points out with clearness the true spirit in which Virgil wrote these poems. The layman or the cursory reader is too apt to see in the Georgics nothing deeper than rustic romanticism of the idylls, and it is well to call attention to their real character...
...persuaded by certain friends that the Harvard eleven favored Exeter and would smash the life out of Andover in order to give the former school a better chance in the contest with the latter. Such a report as this deserves no refutation, but the cause of it is perhaps deeper than would appear at first glance. That athletic boys are persuaded to renounce their choice in choosing a college is well known, but this means appears to us as a new and quite unique innovation...
...cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind the obvious advantage of having a larger range of subjects included in the instruction given, there lies that deeper advantage of making men more careful and deliberate in the choice of their courses. This force is brought to bear most cogently on the man who is taking what is known as a "general course" in college; for his range of studies is usually the widest and his choice therefore...
...good, and adds, perhaps, to the sum of happiness." While "the ideals to be derived from Christianity are completely inconsistent with those which political economy emphasizes," yet we "can only adjust ourselves to these inconsistencies to the best of our ability." The writer has dug for himself a deeper chasm than that which exists "between science and religion, which nobody has yet succeeded in bridging" - oh! - and in trying to leap it, has brought up in the depths between the two sides, from which he can climb up neither. Christianity itself recognizes the impossibility of any such bridge...
...make it utterly meaningless. The poetry in this number is good. "Flowers." the translation from Paul Bourget, is well rendered, and gains in effectiveness by being put into blank verse. In ' O Tempora," a pretty idea, well expressed, is hurt by faulty metre. A second strong poem, of deeper thought, is burdened with the pedantic and heavy title "Address." The fourth poem is a clever bit, announced as coming all the way from Laselle...