Word: humanation
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...Greek Drama which was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON is such as has long been needed and will be highly appreciated. The reading for it may be done in the original or in versions. Hitherto only discouragement has met those who have desired a passing acquaintance with the human aspect of Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead of supplementing their courses in modern literature, English...
...Sunday.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. The William Belden Nobel Lectures. II. Christ's Mission to Human Society. Rev. Professor Francis G. Peabody, D. D., of Cambridge...
...result of constant cultivation of their physical and intellectual development from their early youth. The young speaker should exercise, to expand his lungs and develop his physique. But above all he must acquire knowledge. To develop himself intellectually he must read widely, largely and fearlessly in every department of human inquiry...
...Alger's "The Snapping of the Bow-String" is suggestive in parts of Thomas Hardy. Its rustic coloring, its imaginative interpretation of external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
This little book should find a place in our libraries next to the less human documents, Buffon's "Discours sur le Style," and Herbert Spencer's "The Philosophy of Style...