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...first mention of the stylograph as yet, in fiction, is in the continuation of Howells' story, "A Modern Instance," in the March Century...
Prof. Goodwin has received a Greek newspaper, saying that it is a shame that barbarians as far off as in America should produce a Greek play, while modern Athens has no theatre in which the old classical Greek plays may be produced...
...York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than they would become under the "depressing routine" they are now following. This proposition certainly sounds well and, no doubt, many...
...Kittredge, Senior, "Democracy in the Greek and in the Modern State Compared...
...case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth...