Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, and Tutor and Fellow of Harvard for 20 years. His intention, as expresseed in a note on the fly-leaf, was "to write down the Lives, Characters, and Works of all the Authors in those Arts and Sciences which I intend to gain an insight into." Some 276 pages are then filled with lists of authors, with information about them and their books, which Mr. Prince intended to read...
...with the School of Education consists of two parts presented with equal respect as representing equally valid viewpoints. The one part is written by a faculty member; the other by a student Readers will, of course, value one above the other if they find them conflicting. Indeed, no great insight is required to discern what subjects the one or the other will prove the more authoritative. But it is likely to be discovered that teacher and student concur and supplement more often than they conflict...
...came here to Harvard to speak on some very important discoveries made recently in China which give an insight into the early stage of the evolution of the arts and culture of that region, and also the ancient connections, to some extent economic, existing between the Far East and other portions of the then civilized world...
...next one. Nearly every Barrie revival runs the danger of being submerged by the lovable phantom of Maude Adams. This production was originally scheduled for Laurette Taylor and Godfrey Tearle, and was to be followed by The Admirable Crichton. It was offered to Grace George, who with remarkable insight suggested that the play would be most interesting if done by one of the new generation. Helen Hayes was consequently selected for the part, and probably made the greatest impression of her relatively brief career...
...atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...