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There is another way in which a Latin play is instructive. Ancient poetry was a thing entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled...
...Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate...
...following candidates for the Yale freshman nine have been taken to the training table: H. L. de Forest, L. M. Bass, C. M. Mitchell, C. V. McCance, J. F. Pierce, Jr., F. Boardman, C. M. Reed, R. D. Reed, C. M. Fincke, H. K. Smith, H. D. McCandless, F. S. Chapman, A. N. Jerrems, J. C. Thaw...
President Coulter of Lake Forest University in a recent address presented the following statistics concerning the expenses of some of the larger institutions of learning. The figures are of interest as showing that nearly every college man is in a certain sense educated by charity...
...Lake Forest...