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We believe that another fact underlies and explains both statements. It is that Yale, or rather athletic Yale, keeps in closer touch with the preparatory schools than does Harvard. The average school boy has a profound admiration for greatness, of which, in his mind, distinction at college is one of...
"To students of Shakspere there is much, even in the aesthetic criticism, that is now quite familiar; and yet the justification of the book appears not only in fresh and vivid restatements of well-known views, but in occasional entirely original discussions, with much fruitful suggestiveness concerning not only Shakspere...
"The book suffers a little from a trait noticeable in some other writings of this author an irrepressible fondness for paradox. Perhaps it is necessary nowadays to talk about Shakspere paradoxically, if one expects to receive any attention; but paradox too often passes for originality. * * * *
Traces of this old spirit of opposition are still to be found, and some members of the Faculty are far slower than others to relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond...
"Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice...