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Howard Erskine White next spoke and said that the question, although it bore directly on practical matters, was by its statement, hypothetical. He affirmed the advantages of the system from the standpoint of equity and experience. Men by their inability to come up to the property qualification show their incapability to take part in government...
There was another feature in Saturday's meeting which, now that we have had it, we wonder has not been thought of before, namely the playing of the Banjo and Mandolin clubs. This was certainly a pleasant way of filling in the gaps, between the events a bore which has to be endured. We trust that it is the beginning of a permanent custom. In every way the meeting was a pleasant contrast to that of a week ago and other managements may profit well by this year's experience...
...follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore their best fruit latest in life...
...will long be a pleasant remembrance to those who first became friends there. After luncheon Mr. Paul du Chaillu, the famous African explorer, entertained the party with stories of his own adventures. A tremendous audience greeted the clubs in the evening- Yale's fence of the night before bore crimson shields till it seemed ready to drop to the stage. After the concert the men changed clothes at the hotel and boarded the train for Buffalo. Up to this time the rails seemed to separate the fellows farther and farther from home; now the rails on which they were hurrying...
...insufficient attention generally given it by the English department. For years the course has been regarded as one which "must be" but which is not sufficiently important to demand much thought and attention. Indeed, not a few instructors have freely stated that the course was a bore and they took little interest in it. If the effort were made to make the course at least more interesting, to improve many of the details and - since it seems necessary - to enforce regulations to compel students to work better the course would be more effective. We do not criticise the work...