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...enter the parade simply as Harvard men and gentlemen, and not depend on dressing themselves up like monkeys to distinguish their party in the line of march? If it is thought that a uniform of some sort is desirable, the ordinary black caps and gowns could be worn with perfect propriety, for the Harvard usage permits undergraduates to wear academic costume without hoods. For my part, I should be glad to place at your disposal two sets of caps and gowns, and I am sure there are a thousand graduates who would do the same. The dollar gowns...
...rendering was both artistic and keenly appreciative. The last number, the third act of Mary Stuart, was a disappointing anti-climax. The character of Queen Elizabeth was played in an intensely unsympathetic manner and the entire act showed the folly of taking a few incomplete scenes from a perfect whole...
Schiller lived at a time when Germany was being torn gradually to pieces by the onslaught of Napoleonic imperialism. A few great men, notably Kant, Goethe and Schiller, remained to re-awaken the national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength...
...their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic consciousness which will enable him to look back upon his various former states of existence...
During the past week the football practice has been light, consisting mainly of work intended to perfect the smooth running off of plays, and of drill in the more mechanical points of the game. Open practice has been short and many of the regular players have been given a rest. Ticket applications for the Harvard game have been so numerous that they can be no sale open to the public. Two university mass meetings have been held for the rehearsal of cheering and singing, and several others will take place before the Princeton game...