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...Waltz, "Vienna Blood" Joh. Strauss...
...time and read many books before coming to college. Among the volumes of this collection was an early edition of the Waverley novels. Sir Walter, said the speaker, is not to be judged by his heroes and heroines, who are for the most part filled with sawdust rather than blood. Nor are his large and moving pictures of history and famous personages of the past, picturesque and effective though they usually are, to be accounted his most important contribution to fiction. This is found in Edie Ochiltre, Meg Dods, Nantyswart, and the hundred and one characters of low life which...
...office in his expressions of opinion. What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean putting back human civilization for half a century, and all on account of petty dispute between two nations in which he firmly believes we have no right whatever to interfere? Shall he join...
...Billings Chair of English Literature at Yale. The chair was founded two years ago by Judge E. W. Billings of the class of '53, who left $75,000 for its maintenance. Mr. Stedman believes that Yale, in trying to improve her English department, should make use of younger blood. He says that twenty years ago he would willingly have accepted the offer...
...nearing the social crisis of the world. It is becoming more corrupted and vile every day. The present state of affairs cannot be mended. It must give place to a new order. Either there must come a religion such as the prophets never dreamed of, or rivers of blood must flow-the result of the competition which is grinding and crushing men to death. Sooner or later they who stand for a nobler social order will meet the existing order of things in clearly defined conflict...