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Introduction. (Master Singers of Nuremburg.)Wagner...
...Dean of Westminster, G. G. Bradley, is a graduate of Oxford and former master of University College. The London World, in a sketch of his life, has this sentence: "He would sit with a kindly smile for all comers, a playful affectionateness toward his children, and a gentle tolerance even for those rowdy and athletic undergraduates, whom he struggled all his time to comprehend...
...first I thought it was a Chinaman, or belonged to the Humpty Dumpty Troupe, but my cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher in Italian and Spanish, and learning to play the banjo; of course I don't paint much, but the teacher gives me all the pictures...
...successful. If he does not see his way clear to the top-most position at the outset he cuts loose and goes West. We have so much of wealth and pleasure that the boy's appetites and pleasures are unduly stimulated, and before he is aware of it they master him. Temptations surround him such as his father knew not of, and in a great city he will find it difficult to see the dividing line between right and wrong...
...musical heart-strings of some master poet...