The other two prize-poems must have been measured by some academic foot-rule dug up from the eighteenth century.
Boston influence, but perhaps it is difficult to escape the academic note in such poems for occasions as these.
This influence makes for academic and lifeless work, and it must be deeply rooted since it casts its chill also over the Boston school of painters.
Over his Gymnasic and Academic years the Professor by no means lingers so lyrical and joyful as over his childhood.
Apart from the choice of such a topic as Clothes, too often the manner of treating it betokens in the Author a rusticity and academic seclusion, unblamable, indeed inevitable in a German, but fatal to his success with our public.
Thus was she led far away from academic fields, first into suffrage work, and later into the National Women's Trade Union League.
Let me fortify my own convictions and conclude this preliminary part of my lectures by quoting again, not from academic authorities, but from active missionaries who are or have been at the front and in the field.
He was, in the first place, one of the most impressive lecturers that ever spoke from anacademic chair.
A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, in noticing Smith's death in 1790, says that these divisions turned on questions of academic policy, and that Smith always took the side which was popular with people of condition in the city.
They had already done something for that popularisation of academic instruction which we call university extension.
Dissensions in the University, 69; their origin in the academic constitution, 70.
He was born for academic life and a scholar's pursuits.
But neither was his philosophy an arid academic affair, to be written down as one places in order the bones of a skeleton; it was vibrantly alive, it was itself a drama and a religion.
Here is a man; no dead academic cobweb-weaver, but a masterful, kingly soul, mixed up in warm intimacy with the complex flow of the life about him.
In this way men whose studies have been private, and unadorned with academic degree, are to find entrance to the Society.
Oh, how his grave academic room with oaken panels did brighten, when her letter lay on the table.
To begin with myself, you must know that my understanding is of the Academic School: I incline to weigh proofs before I make up my mind.
Alike in the Exilarchate and in the academic colleges, corruption and oppression were the order of the day, the only object in view being to maintain the authority of the chiefs.
He appointed worthy young men to academic offices, and was faithful to the duties of his position.
Ibn Sarjadu, a rich merchant of Bagdad, had not gone through a regular course of academic instruction.
Nor was this all the indignity it suffered; for it had also to do duty as the chapel of the new academic foundation which Wolsey established, and very soon the cathedral was forgotten in the college chapel.
He now assisted Professor Meiklejohn of St. Andrews in various kinds of literary and academic work, and in him found a friend, with whom he remained in close intercourse to the last.
The common curricoolum,' as the Scottish laird called academicstudies generally, rather repels them.
Politics often inspire the electors; occasionally (I have heard) grave seniors use their influence, mainly for reasons of academic policy.
This was Murray's own view, and he certainly avoided the dangers of academic over-work.
In some places, where academic freedom, as the students style it, exists to a high degree, a general scraping of the feet admonishes the lecturer to repeat his words or be more distinct and clear in his enunciation.
They may be elected to the Academic Senate and to the Rectorship, the Rector or Chancellor not being appointed for life, but changing yearly,--the various faculties being represented in turn.
Are we coming to the time when the state will step in to prevent any boy or girl in high school, college, or professional school from earning academic honors at the expense of health?
A celebrated economist was forced to give up academic work, and consecrated his life to painful and chronic dyspepsia because of eye trouble detected upon the first physical examination.
So long as Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom, such an investigation has mainly an academic interest.
Nor is this a mere academic opinion: such is the power of the Roman Church in this country that she is able to enforce her laws without deference to the authority of the State.
The atmosphere of a mining camp does not seem likely to draw a man towards academic studies and a University life.
No man was more free from the pontifical airs of those historians who proclaimed history as an academic science to be confined within the chilly walls of libraries and colleges.
Some wandered as far afield as Asia or the South Seas; some buried themselves in the secluded courts of Oxford and Cambridge and became mythical figures in academic lore.
In academic circles debate is a well-regulated game between matched sides.
Coldly, palpably real is the next critic of my acquaintance, the academic reviewer.
The academicreviewer (by which I do not mean the university reviewer, since many such are not academic in the bad sense which I am giving to the word) demands an index.
Next there is the rigor mortis of the neo-Egyptians, the barbarism of the dead hand, called by the unkind and the undiscriminating, academic barbarism.
The academicreviewer is besotted by facts, or their absence.
Yet even more curious is the academic attitude toward the novel itself.
Nevertheless, I do not intend in this sally against the slavish barbarism of the merely academic mind to hurl the epithet recklessly.
Law Department; 18 in the Medical Department, and 14 in the Academic Department.
Six women graduated in April with the medical class, one with the law class, and two now graduate in the Academic Department.
Here and there we find an occasional notice of the ways of undergraduates--here a private memoir, there an academic brochure.
They praise academic calm: they affect to wish that they, too, were privileged to live that life of learned leisure which is commonly supposed to be the lot of all Fellows and Tutors.
Coleridge would seem to reserve legitimate dispute for the very young, did we not remember that academic education began and ended earlier in his day.
He tries to catch not only the letter but the spirit, and does indeed present a clearer view of Milton than is contained in manyacademic essays.
Many bad and a few good poets have won that prize, and it constitutes, I suppose, a sort of academic recognition that a man writes verse.
And it seems likely that in the course of time a sharpening of the critical insight and temper will give rise to further reactions from the academic theory as we have come to know it.
One might write a whole history of the gradually increasing criticisms of, and reactions from the academic theories which had become almost canonical.
For this, therefore, thanks to Colotes, and to every one who declares that the academic doctrine was from a higher times derived to Arcesilaus.
