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...examinations for commissions in the English army. The innovation, however, has but little significance, one way or the other, in the discussions of the Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...
Cornell has established a course in elocution. It seems as though the colleges at large were beginning to realize how important a part elocution plays in the modern education. Few have the advantage of being able to speak to the point, but no one should be ignorant of how to use the voice, and by it make up for his lack of matter...
...literary point of view, seems to me to be Goethe's Mephistopheles. He has little in common with Milton's Satan. There is none of the grandeur, indomitable will, and unconquerable love of independence and power, which mark the creation of the great Puritan poet. This is the modern Devil. He has seen through this great humbug which men call the world. He has no desire to get himself into trouble by trying to overturn the powers that be. Of course they are all wrong, but then he likes to make an occasional morning call in heaven to chat with...
Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where...
...great difficulty which perplexed the club when the project bringing out a play was first considered, lay in the mounting of the play. Sanders' theatre is not well adapted to presenting a play in modern style. It is doubtful whether the proper scenery could be set up on the stage; if it could be placed, it could not be easily handled. The club, however, was naturally reluctant to mount the play in a shabby or insufficient manner. It was felt that no scenery at all might be better than an amount inadequate to the frequent changes of the play. Another...