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...easier to take things for granted than to ask about them; it is much less humiliating to be a silent fool than to advertise ones folly; yet the silent fool must continue in his folly while the other becomes wise. If the student would put away this childish reticence some of the courses which are now characterized as dry-as-dust would become much more interesting and much more profitable...
...number are not remarkable either for excellence or for weakness with the exception of "My Friend Rostwick" which is the most pointless and silly story that has appeared in the Advocate for some time. We cannot see any reason or wit in the remarks of Rostwick or in the childish criticisms of his friend. "Harvard Types Hollis Holworthy" by Flandrau is the first article of the number. It is a piece of clever writing and is not without interest. "The Winner" by John Mack is a story which may be true to life but which at the same time makes...
Besides these acquired powers, Chaucer was born with the nature of a pure poet. His love for nature was intense and almost childish, and his eye caught the beautiful always, whether in nature or in man. He taught himself the art of self-criticism, of which earlier poets were ignorant. This gave his writings the double power both of nature and art. Though drama was not then recognized, yet we cannot fail to mark the dramatic instinct of which he was possessed. In all the essentials of genius, - in inheritance, in acquired qualities, and in fitting circumstances - Chaucer was complete...
...last story, called "An Arbiter of Destiny," is just what one expects to find in the ordinary college paper; it is childish in plot and composition, and is unpleasantly suggestive of sub-freshman work...
Hutchins Hapgood writes a short plea for the preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which...