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...addition to the two regular programs which the Club gives every year it has, in the past three seasons, staged a Miracle Play, using the Germanic Museum as a background...
...possesses a wise president. He realizes that by refusing to promote the growth of the school he will be establishing its level. Let the large universities care for those who desire a cosmopolitan atmosphere or a specialized education. The others--those whose object is to get a liberal arts background sufficient to enable them to boast of a certain amount of culture, have an ideal haven in the small college, such as Dr. Holt proposes. Nor is it any shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education, the probabilities...
...purpose of the course is to place within the reach of graduates and undergraduates a concise resume of religion. The first half of these lectures will be devoted to an explanation of the background of religion, its history and development. The second six will take place after Mid-year examinations and are designed to help in clearing up religious problems that trouble students. All of these meetings are scheduled for the lecture Hall on the third floor of the Phillips Brooks House...
...until they have now lost any definite meaning they originally possessed, and are employed for connotation rather than denotation. Not only are they trite--they are vague. The eye passes over them, recognizing them as old friends and yet remains unconscious that they are anything besides a general background or scenery which is inevitable to a well-rounded review...
...Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this world of life and letters rather tenuous and not half so formidable as that which Aristotle, Longinus, Boileau, St. Beuve, Dryden, Goethe, Coleridge, Saintsbury, Paul Elmer More, Mark Van Doren and a few others have possessed...