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While the Harvard man in search of special articles bearing on some special course would find little to his liking in the Christmas Century, the general reader, - be he Harvard man or not - cannot but be delighted with the contents of the December number of this magazine. The Christmas number is something more than the usual number under a holiday name. It is founded with the spirit of Christmas, and both directly and indirectly touches upon the Christian celebration. In some respects, it might be called a Christmas art number; for the frontispiece is a reproduction of the painting...
...Icelandic Sagas differ from European literature both in their style and in the circumstances which prompted their composition. Iceland, during her development lived in peace. The Icelanders were proud of their traditions and thus old tales were preserved in their integrity. Consequently the Sagas impress the reader with a belief in their truthfulnes...
...supposed that all tastes will prefer a prose Dante to the Dantes of Longfellow or even Cary, but to the reader who is at all familiar with the music of the Italian Dante it is hardly to be doubted but that Professor Norton's will be the most generally satisfactory English rendering. Such a reader in the vividly reproduced sentences of the great poem will have suggested in his own mind the melody of the Italian...
...reader of the above must remember two things - first, that its author, Walter Camp, is a Yale man of the Capt. Bob Cook school, and, secondly, that the article in question was probably written several weeks...
...list of the freshman class already published the following statistics have been deduced. The list is not entirely correct as it contains only the names of 368 students and therefore the statistics are not perfectly accurate, but such as they are they will present some interesting facts to the reader...