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...because literature has gone far astray of the stage, and in spite of the fact that the best literature is in the highest sense dramatic. The plays which are observed today are seldom, even in a crude fashion, literary. Sound literary spirit, nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which has been laid upon action and situation, however, has led the men of literature-the only real writers that we have-to let the stage...
...graduation by his well known Phi Beta Kappa address, in which he charged upon the educated men of the country their disregard of questions of public good. This address which attracted so much adverse criticism has been considered by many a vindication of Mr. Phillips' course of action during the many political contests in which he took part. Mr. Phillips career in public life is certainly full of the wisest instruction for college graduates. His fearlessness, his sincerity, his independence gave examples of the greatest value to the educated man of today...
...have forgotten a good deal of my Arabic. Don't you think, my dear fellow, you and I could manage to give them the slip? Run away from them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny to him, and the "tal'h trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could...
...remain so for some time. It was erected in 1846, though its present deserted appearance would lead one to name a much earlier date. What the building will ultimately be used for is a question but there are not a few who see a favorable opportunity for an affirmative action on the petition recently received by the faculty to admit women to the study of medicine, and the utilization of this building for the purpose...
...resolution, and perseverance are required in all the men who excel in athletic sports. The faculty for organization, executive power, the qualities which enable men to control and lead other men, and again those other qualities by which men yield faithful obedience to recognized authority, are all called into action in every boat race, in every ball contest, and through all the preliminary training. In athletics the college world is a little republic of young men with authority for government delegated to presidents, captains, and commodores, and loyally supported by the resources and bodies of the governed. Is the system...