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...education, in regard to the bill relating to the schooling of children and the supervision of public and private schools, President Eliot spoke very earnestly against that portion of the bill which imposes upon the public school authorities the duty of approving private schools. He alluded particularly to the effect this provision would have upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency of an act giving the public authorities the right to supervise private schools...
...former incredulity, and has convinced him that there was a strong prima facie case for careful investigation. The best authenticated cases are never sensational-no skeletons, clanking chains-and are always commonplace and purely personal. Mr. Hodgson illustrated his remarks by most vivid ghost stories, but spoiled the sensational effect by partially explaining them...
...around the pages and between the columns have been taken out, and the articles end across the page instead of filling up one whole column and a fraction of the other. The verses are honored with the full width of the page. All these changes have a very pleasing effect, tending to clear the Advocate from those traces of amateurishness which are the concomitants of the average college paper. The editors of the Advocate are to be congratulated on the success of their maiden number...
...never tried to represent such difficult themes as the shield of Achilles. His skill was, however, shown in the way in which he overcame the inherent clumsiness of the sea monster which usually accompanied Thetis. In the later vases the artist tried to give the effect of a foreground and background by the use of foreshortening; but, owing to the fact that he was confined to a single color, the attempt was not successful. The capture of Troy, as described by the non-Homeric epics, was a favorite subject, and was treated in a great variety of ways...
...Republic, is now bungling and unjust. Of the cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters have been adjudged according to the political views of the votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue in favor of the negative. He asserted that to carry the proposed change into effect it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which would be at once difficult and dangerous. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president or a member of the Supreme Court, and why should it not have the right to deliberate on the case...