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With the output of books increasing at an equal pace, and with such uncertain means for judgment, the casual reader and the book-buyer are put to it to make profitable selections. The desert-island test of a book's value, recently restored to academic popularity, would find little, nowadays, that could be passed...
...coined this mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar's Opera' small and its social effect injurious...
...academic question. Last week at New Haven, that baptismal font of good plays and evil, the revived "Beggar's Opera" came for a "one-night stand" after winning London for three years, and the whole of this country during an extensive tour. But New Haven, accustomed to passing independent judgment, was inclined to be inhospitable. Professor John Million Berdan, of Yale and Early Tudor fame, took the double role of Burke and Boswell, calling the Play banal and immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions, appealed to the police; and a censoring sortie ensued which stirred...
...greatest, surprise of the day was the excellent playing of P. R. Pease '26, who forced E. M. Hinkle '23, number two on the University team to a close three-game match, losing 10-15, 15-7, 15-8. Pease had a great many good shots and showed rare judgment. The meeting between, E. K. Davis '24 and F. I. Carpenter '24 was a close and exciting struggle throughout, the latter finally pulling through...
...upon the claims that the defendants are partners, and therefore liable; that the contract made with the plaintiff was within the scope of the agents of the company who made it; that no mention of limited liability was made in this contract; that no previous decision can limit the judgment in this case; and that, even if the court is of the opinion that no contract was made, the plaintiff can nevertheless recover. The counsel for the defendants claim that Banks et al. are not personally liable, because the Lone Star Oil Company is a trust, which includes limited liability...