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...student body have for years built up in their minds the pre-disposing background for acceptance of Wilsonian ideas. Moreover, the scholastic fatuity for generalization, natural to their methods of thought, renders college intellects susceptible to the merits of principle that any Wilson scheme is sure to contain, and dull to the faults of application...
...teaching in their schools shop-work, drawing, and music, and by placing these subjects where they belong,--on an equal basis with Greek, Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school...
...Transcendency" being diabolically clever, is balanced by a conventional but charming bit from Mr. Sedgwick, and their juxtaposition on the same page shows excellent editorial acumen. Turning back a page we find Mr. Rogers' "where fauns with shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music of Song's lisps" is quite delightful provided Mr. McLane has his tongue in his cheek. Otherwise--? Mr. Hoffman's Sonnet, despite rather an anticlimacteric conclusion, is notable, for its pleasant poise...
...east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely new note into the customarily dull drone of decrees and legislation...
...commuter, stopping in his unceasing search for daily bread, opens "Life's" mournful pages with the hope that perhaps some pleasing ray of light may issue from the same to cheer this dull world. But the dirges written there savor of some former day, of the rewards of a similar quest in the past, and he is astonished to find the cover of quite recent date...