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...brilliance and scintillation of the piece we pride ourselves on comprehending. We can even understand such ideas as "scrapping" a misfit religion or saving souls by killing men, but put everything together and what is the final meaning of the sum total? We rather guess Shaw knew, but he has kept his secret, and the challenge "to make war on war" is virtually a sealed book. All this may be highly commended, for what didactic influence Shaw is attempting to make, is sent out over the footlights with a subtlety and belief that "the malice of a good thing...
...hazardous to make a guess and be fair in picking two ends from the five: Harte, Coolidge, Comerford, Moseley and Highley. Harte and Moseley were given first choice because they were the more spectacular in the games. The other men were equal some respects, better in others, but alertness is one of the greatest assets end can have. Harte and Moseley saved the day for Harvard and Yale against Princeton; therefore they were put on the wings on an all-star team...
...Fourth, give your whole attention to the thing that you are doing or are trying to do. Fifth, do not take more than you can do. Sixth, master your situation, whatever it is. If you go through college guessing then you will guess after you graduate. Seventh, be teachable. Always keep yourself in a receptive mood to learn. Many of your best ideas may come from gleanings gained in public places." --Boston Herald...
...Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic world is close and sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer...
...denied them by their more jovial classmates. Now it matters little for the case in hand whether the date of distinction examinations or the date of the Senior Picnic be changed. As death, taxes, and the rules of the College Office are equally inflexible, we should hazard the guess that the Picnic will give way. Unless the arrangement is entirely impossible, in all the interests of size, scholarship, and class, it should...