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...know," says Emile Zola, "why I do not like the American stage? It is superhumanly good - so good that it becomes unnatural. Remember, that a stage need not be unpleasantly realistic in order to be natural. All that is necessary is that you give place to the improper as well as to the proper. Take your women for instance; you write your plays as if there was no such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming...
...assignment of college rooms for 1882-83 takes place tomorrow...
...opening of University College, London, to women has created the need for a place of residence something like Girton and Newnham Halls at Cambridge. To meet this want a house is to be taken near the college by a number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the higher education of women...
...recent appointment of new instructors in the Law School, and the assured prospect of new quarters, can not but strengthen the conviction that the authorities are determined to leave no effort undone to place all needful improvements in this somewhat neglected department of the university. There is no reason why the Law School should not occupy as high a position in the estimation of the public, or be as well conducted as the other departments, and the energy displayed by the powers that be to increase the capabilities of the school will certainly have the desired effect of arousing...
...schools which prepare for Oberlin, taking into consideration, at the same time, the comparative ages of students at admission with their consequent maturity or immaturity of mind, and also the relative breadth and liberality of culture imparted during the freshman year by influences, both direct and indirect, at either place, the substantial truth of our first thesis as an illustration remains still unimpaired. We would, by no means, be willing to use the University of Michigan in this statement as also representative of Western colleges of mediocre stamp, as the Review would seem to wish to have us do. That...