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...Trojan war and even Mr. Glad stone in our day is said to believe that the poems are full of Egyptian mythology. We have today a more correct text than ever before. Homer has a wonderful ability to enter into the spirit of his poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable too his types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing...
...third demands an "exact fit, while a third demands an "exact fit," and sacrifices style and comfort to obtain it. The tailor is truly gifted who combines these ideas and properly satisfies each demand. In one garment one tailor has accomplished this. "Thompson's Patent Cut Trousers" are a perfect combination of style, comfort and fit. E. O. Thompson, the patentee, has, from small beginnings, become the largest merchant tailoring firm in our country, chiefly through the merits of this single specialty, even at high prices. Now that he introduces them as a ready-made specialty, with the winning inducement...
...well known authors from all ages, from Cicero and Appollodorus, from Schiller and Goethe, from Coleridge and Wordsworth. The sixth conversation is by far the most interesting as it gives us Mr. Story's idea of true art and shows that he does not believe with ruskin that a perfect reproduction is a work of art. True art, the author says, is "nature reflected in the spiritual mirror, and tinged with all the sentiment, feeling, and passion of the spirit that reflects it." It is neither real or illusory; it is the embodiment of the inmost being of the artist...
...varsity crew during the past week has been rowing in the gymnasium. Messrs. Keyes and Alexander have been coaching. Mr. Keyes is taking great pains to perfect the body swing, in order that when the time comes to practice on leg work the crew may not lose its form. It is very important that every man should get a perfect control of his body-a thing which was somewhat neglected last year. Mr. Keyes hopes that the slow, rather unpleasant work done at present will prevent the men from falling into bad faults when they get on the water...
...life. But this is no reason why the necessary precautions against them should be overlooked. Many of the dormitories are built in very old style with very little provision for escape in case of fire. The stair-ways are narrow and all wood, so that they would make a perfect flue for the flames. It ought to be the duty of the college to furnish every room above the ground floor with a rope or other means of escape-There are ropes in some of the rooms but not in all. Examination shows that Holworthy does not come under...