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Systematic criticism of either prose or poetry, Professor Butcher said, was late in appearance among the Greeks in the from of writing, although a constant oral interchange of ideas preceded it. A fine sense of discrimination and an ideal of artistic truth were developed in the popular mind at a period when Greek literature was most healthy in spirit and spontaneous in expression...
...great public literary contests, the ideal poet was judged to be the one who best rendered his hearers virtuous and wise, and ennobled their spirits. A perfect poem, according to the Greeks, must have universality of matter and unity of form...
...Robertson in 1895 went into management and produced "Romeo and Juliet" and "The School for Scandal" with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. At the Lyceum a year later when he played in his present part, he reached a reasonable ideal, and a distinguished critic and Shakesperian scholar exclaimed, "That man was born to play Hamlet." His company was taken to Germany, where the Emperor saw Macbeth and Hamlet, and received Mr. Robertson twice in the Imperial box. On his return "Macbeth" was given with an all-star cast...
...phrases and expressions of affection that I have received. I think I should pick out the words at the end of the inscription on the loving cup that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave to me, because those words express what seems to me to be the absolute ideal of American society. They said that I had done something for justice, for progress, and for truth. Are not those the real Harvard ideals,--the ideals of us all? Is there any progress, political or social, that is not founded upon justice? We all believe that. We are all going...
...University and who know it intimately, like to find the centre of interest; it is not a wise suggestion which would separate the exercises of graduation and the centres of University life. Then, too, the journey to and from the Stadium, especially if the weather is not ideal, will be the object of no pleasant anticipation and no grateful memory--except that it might furnish gayety to the uninvited rabble who would doubtless gather as if the affair were a horse race or county fair...