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...apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after serious deliberations, it is suggested--quite cunningly, too,--the review actually approved. A peculiar use or unsuspected ignorance of the correct and artistic method of including erroneous impressions in the same paper with only too obvious conclusions: e. g. "black is not white," "my humble nothingness," "I am not a good critic," "I am not blase," etc., etc., reveals that the critiques are native and quite harmless. Proof: advertisements of plays reviewed appear...
...thin? Quite correct you conjecture...
...scattered minutes here and there, now and then, during which the corona has been under scientific examination. It is known to be connected with the phenomena of sunspots and electrical disturbances, but its exact nature is uncertain. The moon's course also will be closely examined to correct errors in present calculations; for, although the moon travels very regularly in a general way, it is slightly pulled aside this way and that by many diverse factors very hard to caculate. The effect of gravity on light rays, in accordance with the Einstein hypothesis, is one of a number of other...
...drop make the splash in the bucket at this particular time? The only satisfactory answer that can be vouchsafed is that this is the 155th anniversary of the great Emperor's birth, or the 103rd anniversary of his death. If neither of these answers is correct, the drop must have dropped not by any conscious cooperation of the publishers, but simply because it dropped...
...this analysis is correct there seems to be some hope of remedying the defects of both types of universities. A cultivation of a sense of values is necessary in both cases. Once these values are fixed, public opinion will make them just as effective as it has the false values which are leading to pedantry in the one type and athleticism in the other. In Germany the character building which results from participation in college journalism, dramatics, and athletics must be recognized as of some importance. In the United States there is the far more difficult task of convincing...