Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Greenough delivered last evening in Harvard 1, a very interesting lecture on Roman Art, - "House Decoration." The lecture was illustrated throughout by the lantern, and the views shown gave one a splendid idea of the old Roman homes...
...previous lectures he dealt with poetry in Provence and France, last evening with that of Italy. After the downfall of the empire, in the midst of the barbaric invasions and factional quarrels, Italy still kept her spirit of superiority over all surrounding races. She clung to the idea of Roman jurisprudence that all men are equal, hence she would not accept the spirit of feudalism and so fell into a number of small, disconnected states between whom no national spirit was possible. More than this, the domination of the Roman church worked directly against the national spirit...
...works. To Dante nothing was too great or too small. All that engaged other men's minds interested his. He found his material in philosophy, religion, art, politics, and learning alike, and out of this most disconnected material, he constructed his divine comedy. Through it there runs one fundamental idea, - the idea of love. This idea of love cannot be said to be Dante's distinctively, for it is rather the fusion of three ideas of love which he found prevalent in the world: - the Platonic love, or the desire of the incomplete to make itself perfect, whose ideal...
...Yale will, if she beats Princeton be obliged to play the University of Pennsylvania next year in New York. probably on Thanksgiving Day, or to withdraw from the Intercollegiate Association. This would upset everything and how it would end is hard to tell Yale men do not relish the idea of having the great Thanksgiving Day game with the Pennsylvanian team, particularly after their victory on Saturday. Should Yale withdraw from the league it is hardly likely that Princeton would remain in it. With Harvard, Yale and Princeton free to make any arrangements they pleased, the present difficulties will probably...
...Renan's idea of God was that the highest there is in man is in itself God, and this is expressed in the beautiful. Thus God is an attribute of man, and therefore man must strive for perfection, to be attained through the intellect. Renan said that prayer is not needed...