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...afternoon session papers were presented on behalf of Harvard University by President C. W. Eliot, and for the University of Virginia by Dr. J. W. Page on "The Exemption of Educational Institutions from Taxation." President Eliot's paper was in effect the same as one which he delivered before the Massachusetts Legislature in opposition to a bill on the taxation of educational institutions, and which will shortly be published. A discussion followed the reading of the papers...
...author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns out to be too strong for the Sophist himself, and so justifies the title. The real stage-business of the piece, the actual sophistry, like the killing...
Professor Kuno Francke, eurator of the Germanic Museum, has just received an official message from Saxony to the effect that His Majesty King Friedrich August has given to the Museum a full-sized reproduction in plaster of the sandstone pulpit of the church of Wechselburg, near Leipzig...
...certain sketchiness which suggests that the stories are in spirit, if not in letter, daily themes. There is firm, swift characterization in "Concerning Bores," and it is simple and direct up to the last sentence. There a touch of conscious exaggeration spoils all the effect of its preceding skill and sincerity. "A Committee of Three" seems to the present critic typical of a certain kind of college fiction, the value of which is very doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content...
...resignation of L. W. Riddle '02, Austin Teaching Fellow in Botany, to take effect September 1, 1906, was received and accepted...