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...sentiment of some strength for the gradual introduction of co-education into Harvard on the ground that educational advantages are the right of women no less than of men, and that Harvard has educational advantages which cannot be found elsewhere. Yet the practical objections to the adoption of this ideal justice are great, and few would care to meet them. The growth of Radcliffe along the lines which it is taking promises a happy solution of the difficulty; it will avoid awkward arrangements and yet will open to women practically all the advantages open to men at Harvard. Organized...
...thing asked by the students would be that the social life be not seriously disturbed. If the arrangement were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves...
...clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
...sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose images are as vivid as Dante's, but differ in this that they are all presented on the plane of the actual and not the ideal, that the painting is Dutch and not Italian. The poem I speak of is Piers Ploughman's Visions...
...Goethe wish the novel of Wilhelm Meister to be a picture of life about him, or an ideal study of character...