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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-Dear Sirs : Having read to-day your article of the 28th, in which you cite Canon Farrar's views in regard to the (socalled) English system of classical education, I trust that, with your usual courtesy and fairness and desire to furnish your readers correct information on the subjects discussed in your paper, you will permit me to offer a few brief remarks, that may tend to modify largely the conclusions that might be drawn from the extract you have given...
...safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript is so vigorous and pertinent in its statement that it is worth quoting entire: "What, in particular, does President Porter mean by the faculty's providing for 'attractive amusements and athletic activities?' You cite the phrase, and the alliteration makes it a noticeable one. But athletic activity is, we should suppose, quite out of the line of most of those who are called upon to take it in charge. Then, again, though the faculty at Yale may at rare intervals afford the students amusements...
Rather than why he did not cite more of Khayyam, the question arises why he did not cite more of poets greatly his superiors. Firdansi, for instance, a remarkably learned and talented poet, made out of the Persian Chronicle a most perfect poem which well repays perusal in a translation ca va sans dire. He has been translated in German, I believe, by Friedrich von Schack, probably with German thoroughness and accuracy. Why did he not say more of Nizami, who celebrated the exploits of Alexander in a long epic called "Sekander-Kamed," and who, besides writing "Khosau and Shirin...
...other work toward the end of the volume is good. "The Hermit's Vigil," by Margaret J. Preston, is superior to the ordinary magazine poem, but we cannot help suggesting that the lady gains nothing by the introduction of an obsolete and uncommon vocabulary: we would cite, in illustration of our meaning, the following lines...