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...reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
...only was it most thoroughly un-Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land in which he lived...
With this in mind, the reason for Schlerel's distaste for Euripides easily suggests itself. Euripides dramas marked a change from what was held to be the ideal, they vorged on destroying the rosey illusions of the romanticist and for this very reason they were distasteful...
...will become the function of the National Student Federation, to explore these fields and many others, and to make them fruitful. You cannot create an ideal college just by taking thought, and by giving rein to your imagination. We live in America, in the Twentieth century...
...cold sublimity of the ideal tragery there is now added something to excite a more universal if less elevated appeal. Characters took on more reality and the passions and sorrows of every day life were portrayed with more vividness and directness. Practically speaking. Euripides became the founder of the romantic drama and it is interesting in view of this to note that A. W. Schlegel, the very fountain head of the great German romantic movement would scarcely admit that his dramas were tolerable...