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...several of the tableau scenes are naturally stronger in the play than in the book, notably the "vendelta" scene of the last act. Mr. Robert Hilliard took the part of Mr. Barnes easily and naturally, and shared the honors with Miss Emily Righ who, as Marina Paoli, was an ideal Corsican, strong in love and hate. The other characters were well sustained...
...tendency of men from colleges, especially from Harvard, is away from elementary instruction. Indeed, to enter this requires some special preparation and knowledge. The principles of good teaching remain the same from the kindergarten to the college. The difference is in the application of them. The ideal preparation for teaching would be a thorough college course, and then a year in a normal school. Every teacher should have some pursuit with which he may employ his outside time. The narrowing tendency of teaching is very great...
...sixth number of the Advocate which appeared shortly before the Christmas recess is a very creditable number. The literary tone of most of the articles is above the average, and the editorials contain few statements which cannot be accepted without dispute. The position taken, however, is rather an ideal than an aetual one. The question is asked, "for whose benefit are these games and exhibitions given?" The possible answers considered are, "for the physical benefit of the men who participate in them," "for the honor of the institution which may indulge in them," and lastly, "for the benefit...
...tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered in its poetry. The Middle Ages became the ideal of the Romanticists; mediaeval subjects were chosen by preface and mediaeval forms of expression were affected. In so far as the movement corrected a prevading one-sidedness in favor of certain ideas, it was useful and successful; in so far as it endeavored to replace a one-sided tendency by another...
...reports." The soul may be separated from the body as in the case of clairvoyants, and it may see independently of the eyes, but any real separation cannot be proved. He went on to say "the more a man's spiritual development is attained, the higher he sees his ideal above him. So with Christ who exclaimed, "Why call eye me good!" Man lives in eternity, and these ideals are never fulfilled in the earthly life. Man is a mortal being, but he is above mortality in that he looks beyond it. Does the belief in immortality degrade the world...