Word: formality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first formal presentation of the Latin play, given last evening, covered all expectations, high as these had been. The applause which the play received, considering how far a great part of the audience necessarily was a from full appreciation of the finer points, was astonishing. The great hazard of time, work, and care has, if complete success is compensation, been repaid...
Attention will be repaid in several distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing...
...real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims rather to produce delight than conviction, or, if conviction, then through intuition rather than formal logic, and, leaving what Donne wisely calls...
These are the last words of the Bible and Paul often ended his letters in the same way. The sentence has thus become very familiar to us all, but what real meaning has it, is it nothing more than a formal phrase of dismissal at the end of a sermon. It surely should mean more than this to most of us,-even on the surface we see in it the overflowing beneficence of God and the generosity of Christ...
...Holden Chapel what promises to be a very interesting meeting held under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the St. Paul's Society. Recently a convention of the Student Volunteer Movement was held at Detroit to which the societies sent delegates who will now make their formal report of the convention. Besides these two all the other religious societies in college have received invitations to be present. In addition all members of the faculty and students interested in missionary work are invited to attend...