Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Professor Webster is admirably lucid and entertaining throughout; while his comprehensive and incisive insight enables him to present the giants of British diplomacy in a light which is peculiarly revealing. The character of the British nation comes in for close scrutiny, and those who take History 68 will find it useful for a great deal more than an understanding of foreign relations along. A better knowledge of all British lectures which give in turn something of the drama, humor, and thought which went into the external relations of the greatest empire in the world during the nineteenth century...
...spite of an admitted lack of emotional insight, Mr. De Casseres would consider Mencken the greatest stimulator of his age. He says, "Huneker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy...
...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
...story about the 1897 game with the Cadets this same sports writer gives present day followers an insight on the condition of the men. There were hardly ever any substitutions except under special circumstances. The day on which the '97 game was being played was a hot one and the heat and the dust combined to make the tilt almost unbearable. There was no relief until near the end when we read that "Doucette and Haughton were compelled through exhaustion to retire from the field." The Haughton of that game was the same one who was to make a name...
...subject matter that constitutes a sort of highest common facor of what any young man ought to know. . . This highest common factor may be looked upon as a body of knowledge, broad in character and stimulating in intellectual effect, through the medium of which a student may obtain an insight into the various directions in which a more detailed study of the field would carry...