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...manifold that he could not be expected to conduct courses in some branch of learning, as is the custom with the presidents of almost all other American colleges, but that he has not hitherto taken occasion to come in contact with the students in some way, seems rather strange. Co-operation between students and faculty is one of the striking phases of the present progressive movement in educational matters, and President Eliot as the leader of this movement will now, we hope, come forward and practise at home what he has preached abroad...
...idea of a student board of government is due to President Seelye of Amherst, in accordance with whose suggestion the senate was established at that college about two years ago. As the body owes its origin thus to the faculty rather than to the students of Amherst, its continuance is well assured, and the powers with which it is invested are considerable...
...sanctity of suffering: we feel the weight of the mysteries of this life, and we are made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...
...person rather strong and brawny...
...Edinburgh, Boswell accompanied her, and we have an account of his love making there. "Next evening I was at the play with them: it was 'Othello.' I sat close behind her and at the most affecting scenes I pressed my had upon her waist: she was in tears and rather leaned to me. The jealous Moor described my very soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes...