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...more artificial tastes of later times, when genius commanded the respect and position which gold does now, and painters and sculptors held a rank second to none in the estimation of the people. In modern schools of art-the French and German, for example-we find much of good, but fail to discover any lofty devotion to the cause; for the money-getting mania of the nineteenth century rules even men of genius, and much rubbish is cast upon the world in the shape of carelessly executed work. Still, we here find much of the highest excellence, and the better...
...agreed that when either of us used language which transgressed the bounds of good taste, - in other words, when either was roused to profane remarks, - we should deposit in a box for the purpose one cent for every such remark, and the money thus obtained should constitute a charity-fund. Whenever a beggar applied, either could draw out of the fund any sum at his discretion...
...little chance for the societies. We shall find, however, that our plain honest character yields the true weight which turns the scale of unworthiness: he is never "tried in the balance and found wanting"; he has attained the philosophic knowledge that contentment is great gain, and that while doing "good by stealth, and blushing to find it fame" he has run not as one that "beateth the air," but has steadily attained the goal set before him for his after career in life...
Next came that Western growth of poetry, of which Bret Harte wrote a great deal that is good, and others a great deal that is not good. But, be it good or bad in its execution, the influence of poetry which celebrates one noble act as a full atonement for a thousand crimes, and teaches, if it teaches anything, that virtue shines brightest in a setting of vice, can be nothing but injurious. We need not regret that the heroic-ruffian has lost his place in the popular heart...
...present Sophomore class, on undertaking the conduct of the Institute, felt that although much good work had been done for it by the classes immediately preceding, and although it had in some respects been well maintained, yet that there existed a very general lack of interest in its literary work...