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...form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee...
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...Parable of the Talents differs from the other in that the master rewards the faithful servants by permitting them to enter the kingdom of heaven. The unfaithful one is cast into outer darkness. These parables are applicable to college life. A student is apt to shirk his duties at the beginning of the year and his failure at the mid-year examinations corresponds to the reproof of the master. If he persists in not taking advantage of his opportunities he is sure to be cast into outer darkness at the finals...
...cast of the play are fourteen actors, including the spearker of the prologue, and as many students in the college and Graduate School have been found willing to undertake the heavy labor of study and rehearsal requisite to insure a worthy performance. The nineteenth of April, the anniversary of the Concord fight, has been chosen for the first performance in conformity with the Roman custom of producing plays only upon festivals. A libretto containing the Latin text and a new prose translation is in the press and will be for sale about the middle of March...
...when other universites are adopting it. Harvard originated the idea and it would naturally be expected that she would be proud in preserving it. Instead, other universities recognize what an inspiring influence it may have and hence incorporate it into their system, while we, having spent our first enthusiasm, cast it aside...