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GERMAN READINGS.Mr. Hochdorfer will give a series of six Tuesday Evening Readings from Modern German Comedies in Sever 11, beginning October 25. The readings will be open to the public...
...Leahy's article on "Realism and Reality" is an admirably balanced essay, and expresses in beautifully chosen language the thoughts of one who has evidently devoted much serious thought to his subject. The utter impossibility of the absolute realism to which modern writers tend ever becoming a true work of literature is forcibly and convincingly stated. The style of the essay is throughout smooth, the language is glowing and full of life-a worthy medium for such good thoughts...
...brutal and rough, as Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented the game as to make it appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough-and-tumble prize-fight. A football game is not marked by such butchery, nor is it devoid of manly and courageous characteristics. The author opens with the question of the legitimacy of its being called the American game of foot-ball rather than the Rugby because the students...
...unwittingly has given us facts of his existence, as is shown by the relics to be found everywhere on this continent. We can gain but little knowledge of the less civilized nations from the conscious sources. The muse of history was once portrayed with a scroll and pen. The modern Clio should be armed with a spade. The historian to day has to dig for his parts. The study of unconscious sources begins with buildings, vases, irons, etc., but it soon advances to the inscriptions on tombs, coins, obelisks. The purpose of these inscriptions was not historic, but such...
...times notices of sacred days contained appendices of the important events which had occurred since the last notifications. Unfortunately, most of the annalists of the middle ages were unintelligent. Most of the original sources of the history of this era have now been printed, through the energy of the modern German scholars. This brings up the invention of printing, the great value of which it is difficult to estimate...