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...DOSTOEVSKY opens up new worlds: the regions he explores were previously unknown to literature. And he creates Upheaval." With these words Mr. Julius Meief-Graefe commences the latest biography of one of the great trilogy of Russian writers, perhaps even, if one may attempt to set foot upon the odious road of comparisons, the greatest of the group which put a new literature before the world: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Tolstoy and Turgenev painted upon what might be called a variation of the Western canvas, with new colors; Dostoevsky created a new easel and a new technique. It is the difference...
...life of the University in its entirety, are nevertheless typical and like most extremes they meet. The University world revolves on a substantial axis which places the academic at one pole, the athletic at the other, and successfully links them together by the social medium. Comparisons appear particularly odious here, but at no time during the college year are the two almost diametrically opposite sides placed in a more revealing juxtaposition and permitted to illustrate more admirably the fluctuation in the universal graduate and undergraduate mind. For, while there are some whose interest in the awarding of the degrees excludes...
...government as judge. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. . . . It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part...
...even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...
Comparisons between Princeton's newly enforced library hours and those of other colleges are bound to be odious-more odious even than is the usual wont of comparison. And Harvard may be expected to furnish a basis for a good part of these statistical presumptions. From eight in the morning until midnight are the doors of the Princeton library open for admittance; from morn to midnight may one finger leaves and copy notes; from midnight to morn may the goodies mop and scrub...