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...present period of service which Dr. Leighton Parks gives at morning chapel will be the last by him during this year. Dr. Parks has now been one of the University Preachers for three years, and is, by length of service, the senior member of the Board. We cannot too often acknowledge the great debt owed by the members of the University to these ministers who are willing to disturb their ordinary pastoral duties in order to aid in the religious life here...
Professor Felix Adler of New York spoke last night at Appleton Chapel on the transition from University life to that of the outside world. University life, he said, is often thought to unfit a man for success in after life, and the question arises, is the scientific training of the University ethically so different from that necessary to attain a definite object, that in which worldly success exists, that it renders a man unable to accomplish anything after his college training? In this connection a college training is understood as a thorough training in science, the bringing...
...prose, a manner changed and heightened; the Elizabethan style, regnant in most of our dramatic poetry to this day, is mainly the continuation of this manner of Shakespeare's. It was a manner much more turbid and strewn with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton; often it was detestable; but it owed its existence to Shakespeare's instinctive impulse towards style in poetry, to his native sense of the necessity for it; and without the basis of style everywhere, faults though it may in some place be, we should not have had the beauty of expression, unsurpassable...
...observed that power of style, in the sense in which I am here speaking of style. is something quite different from the power of the idiomatic, simple, nervous, racy expression, such as the expression of healthy robust natures so often is, such as Luther's was it a striking degree. Style, in my sense of the word, is a peculiar
...proportionately lessened. The current from these power houses is poured out through the feeders and returns through the ground, but this arrangement is very unsatisfactory, for the wear on the water and gas pipes, which carry the current, is very great, and pipes, which ought to last forty years often become worthless after three or four months...