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...words do not suggest parts of ideas that unite as they proceed into larger and larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains and swear, gives, when merely read, very little suggestion of actual thought. Few people have the dramatic imagination sufficiently to project the words into real life. But, when a character is impersonated...
gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls...
...Review says of itself that it "is conducted in the interests of the Prospect Union and of social and educational progress along the lines of university extension and university settlement work." It is published twice a month during term time, with two numbers during the summer. The subscription price is fifty cents a year. Though the obect of the Review is not primarily to make money, it is hoped that some money for the Union can be made by it. It should be understood that "contributtors, editors, and advertising solicitors receive no financial compensation whatever for their services in connection...
...Venetian architecture and painting alike, the eye meets color everywhere, a marvel of beauty even after the lapse of several centuries. This love of color Venice imported from Constantinople along with its luxurious habits of living...
Concerts will be given at Brighton, Hastings, and several other resorts along the channel, after which the clubs will go to London. Passing north toward Scotland they will play at Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. From Glasgow they will go to Liverpool, where the clubs will disband. This will be the first trip of the kind ever undertaken by an American college and according to the present prospects its success is almost assured...