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...church did much more than contribute to us its theology, for by insistence on certain types of felling, by its poetic lives of martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante...
...Harvard side there is accommodations for 4500 men - 2100 were sold in Cambridge; where are the remaining 2400? Each man in the Foot Ball Association had as many as he wanted; each member of the advisory board also had tickets; likewise the Faculty and city authorities of Springfield; a certain number were sent to the Harvard Club of New York - these people in all received 2400, while the University at large received but 2100. Having stated facts, let us ask a few questions. First, why were 70 men allowed to buy 2100 tickets, or what right had the management...
...Advocate came out Saturday and seems to us to be slightly inferior to the previous issue. The verse of the number is up to the usual average and the editorials and Topics of Day are well written, but the stories in general lack the originality and artistic finish of certain of the contributions to number three...
...Love will Find the way" is in certain respects one of the most ambitions pieces of prose in this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard...
...performed by the children themselves, which is not prescribed even in the schools that have adopted teaching by experiments. President Eliot advocates the remaining changes as well, and says that the plan needed in the schools is practically the Harvard elective system. If children have a liking for a certain line of study they should not be kept from it. All can do the same amount of work as now, and at the same time have the opportunity to develop their particular abilities...