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...present time the question of reform is in order. Everybody feels that there is something to be done; modifications to be adopted, antiquities to be suppressed, new methods to be introduced. Still, there is fear and hesitation. In France, you know, we know not how to make reforms; we make revolutions...
...spirit of our modern times demands of us something other than the power to arrange syllables, or scan the verses of Plautus. The time is no more when we could devote ten years of our life to so sterile an occupation. What need have we to-day to make Mithridates speak barbarous Latin, or to put solecisms into the mouth of Hannibal...
...actors, all of whom have devoted considerable attention to its study and performance. Edwin Booth's rendering had been for many years unequalled and perhaps unapproached, and when we heard of the new actor, whose light hair and broken English had won such triumphs abroad, all were impatient to make the comparison, confident, no doubt, that Booth's glory could not fail to be increased by it. Fechter came well advertised to this country, for his arrival was preceded by a letter from Charles Dickens, who seemed fairly carried away by the man's conception of the part, and perhaps...
...University Race of last summer, the editor places the crews according to his own observation of their positions at the finish, placing Columbia next after Harvard. It is refreshing to observe that, although he speaks of the negligence of the judges who were placed at the finish, the compiler makes no mention of the "diagonal line." The rules of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, those of the Association of Amateur Oarsmen, the rules of betting, the definition of an "amateur" oarsman, several pages for memoranda, and various tables of more or less value to boating men make...
...majority of a legislative body composed of the wisest men in the country. Colleges, however, have a power almost as great as that of the legislatures, although it has not yet been fully exercised. Instruction might be given every year on political economy and kindred subjects, which would make its principles almost as common and as well known to the voters of the country as the changes of the moon are. To exercise this power seems to be not only a privilege but the duty of every college...