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...first speaker was Mr. Chadwick, L. S. He dwelt chiefly on the historical side of communism, and entered particularly into details, in recounting the various religious attempts at communistic settlements. He was followed by Mr. Young, who advocated the Bellamy idea, and gave a very lucid explanation of it. Mr. Young was very seathing when showing up the defects of the wage system...
...importance of the subject warranted a larger audience than assembled in Sever 11 last night. Professor White, for the Athletic Committee, gave a most lucid and interesting history of the management of athletics at Harvard, and explained with admirable clearness the position at present held by the committee of which he is chairman...
Schopenhauer's style is in contrast with his temperament. He was morbidly pessimistic and vain, but his style is lucid and clear. His great work is the "World as Will and Idea." He asks what one's true nature is and comes to the conclusion that the whole inner life is in the will, i. e., the active nature as such. This is deeper than intellect and at the basis of all seeing and knowing...
...Storey then proceeded to arraign the tariff bill in a remarkably clear, lucid, and straightforward manner. He said that the McKinley bill marks a new departure and is merely an experiment and a beginning. He then spoke on the four essential features of the bill and brought out the disingenuousness of the republican leaders. Mr. Storey devoted a long time to the discussion of sugar's being on the free list. He drew a comparison of the old and new tariff laws, said that somebody understood every line but that nobody understood the whole...
...leading article of the month is a scholarly account of the Trial, Opinions and Death of Giordano Bruno, by William R. Thayer. The story of "opinions" is particularly lucid and interesting. "Emerson would have been condemned by that Inquisition," says Mr. Thayer, "for two of his sentences." The Value of the Corner, by G. P. Lathrop, is one of those discussive essays upon nothing in particular and many things in general, such as Lamb delighted in. There is nothing else Lamb-like, however, in Mr. Lathrop's theory of the advantages for solitude of a corner. "A Forgotten Episode...