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...devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate to the name of Umfraville. The three together, and occasionally this incidental fourth work out their lives in studied contemplation. Every act is done...
...omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist and engineeer as he was a painter. In the field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone to forget that in his lifetime he spent almost as much time at one as at the other. Even in the Renaissance it was possible for a diligent and brilliant student to cover nearly all branches of human knowledge and to be proficient in several of the arts. As the generations...
Gertrude Atherton writes a novel, Black Oxen, dealing with literary New York of today. What is this literary New York? Who are these log-rollers and back-scratchers of whose activities many of us hear, yet whose actuality we are prone to deny? go into the Algonquin some noon. Anyone can do it. Here you will find the famous "round table" at which sit the supposedly elect. Perhaps you will see Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, whose Six Characters in Search of an Author has been reckoned one of the artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced...
Just before every examination period, certain business and helping institutions known as the "Tutorial Schools" spring into prominance among certain students; and critical discussion among other students and college heads. For those who are prone to criticize and claim that while these schools are legal, they are not ethical. I have nothing to say. I wish to take issue, however, with those who would say that they are of no practical good in the educational system of Harvard...
...University rifle team has recently declined an invitation to become a member of the Intercollegiate Rifle Association on the grounds that its regular schedule of meets was all that it can adequately handle, and because the regulations of the Association require shooting prone, sitting, and standing while the University team has invariably shot from the prone position only and was unwilling to change its methods...