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...want to say right here that I decline to subscribe to the doctrine of the sacredness of the human arm or leg. What matters a few broken bones to the glories of football as an intercollegiate sport? It is all nonsense to say that football is a game that benefits only a few. Look at the youngsters on every vacant lot in Washington during the fall season playing at football! Does anybody suppose that there would be these activities if it were not for the great heroes on the big teams whom these boys read about and look...
Phedre is an immortal play, one of those works of the human brain which will live and be admired so long as man has the power to appreciate the highest beauty and loftiest art. The power of the last two plays which have been discussed, was, as we have seen, in the appreciation of character and in the reality and truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed...
...main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human beings; in the Latin play of Seneca the same is true, but when we come to the French this woman who has hitherto been of but secondary importance, suddenly steps to the front, she commands our attention, holding us transfixed while present and claiming our thoughts while absent. She is no longer...
Professor. de Sumichrast concluded his lecture by a careful summary of the play analyzing the complicating passions of the human heart as shown throughout, and completely refuting the objection of some of the critics that the play was monotonous and lacked dramatic interest...
This judgment has been deservedly reversed by more recent critics and Polyeuctes is now classed, if not on an equality with Shakespeare's greatest works, yet as one of the greatest works of the human brain. It is essentially a dramatic work; those only accusing it of lack of dramatic interest who are unacquainted with, or incapable of appreciating, the beauty of the French Drama. Such opinions are generally the result of false impressions gathered from poor translations, or utter ignorance of the subject matter...