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...meeting in Sanders, Thursday evening, in which Mr. Roosevelt spoke, seems to me to contain in itself the solution of the evil which he strove to point out and cure. It is this: that the way to cure the lack of unity and enthusiasm in the student body here, is to bring together the whole College in just such meetings as that of Thursday and stir up enthusiasm...
NOTICE TO SENIORS.- Each member of the class will receive two lists of photographs tomorrow. These lists contain full directions for ordering photographs of different members of the class and faculty, and also group views and albums...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by taking up in brief detail the lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak...
...letters of Edward Fitzgerald, said Mr. Copeland, come nearer the epistolary ideal than any of those in the list just enumerated. The late Alexander Dumas is reported to have said that a play should contain a picture, an ideal, and a judgment. One of these elements, the picture-said the speaker-should have a place in the ideal letter. It should also, if may be, contain an incident; and it should be composed with an exquisite union of correctness and ease. The letters of the poet Cowper are, on the whole, the best in the language, and Fitzgerald's often...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...