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...given last night in the Fogg Lecture Room by the Rev. Henry Churchill King, D.D., LL.D., President of Oberlin College, on "The Ethics of Jesus." The speaker in this lecture introduced his subject and laid emphasis on the fact that we must see the teaching of Jesus as a background to his ethical teaching...
This cultural contrast gives the background for the story, which deals with the love affairs of the Princess. Many episodes in the play hardly noticed by the average spectator, have historical bearing; for instance, the part of Eckhoff, which Hanfstaengl played splendidly. The play does not say what every German knows, that this soldier who joins the actors, was to become the greatest actor of his time...
...east end of the Living Room of the Union, where it will remain for the next few days. The picture shows President Eliot seated at his desk with a pen in his hand. The figure is in full light while the rest of the picture forms a dark background of red and brown...
...prose story "A Woman There Was," is a study of a coquette, thoughtless but not all bad, and a sturdy unsophisticated rustic youth. The phases of feeling and the development of character are well set forth; but how could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told...
...better Lass Day," what it is. Not yet does he have that sensation of the world slipping from under him that comes on Commencement. But the Lampoon would not suggest sad thoughts so appropriately. The Hero is firmly seated. The color on the cever and as a background of many of the pictures is blue, probably as a contrast to the predominant Class Day red, and to the general hilarity of the reading matter. The illustrations are unusually good, carefully drawn, suggestive and appropriate. Some are purely humcrous, some satirical, as the "Suggestion for Gore Hall," "The Insignia Craze...