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...Latin stage and its settings are reproduced, how the Latin music is adapted to modern ears, and with how much expression English students can handle lines written for Roman actors. The curiosity is piqued; the eye and ear are delighted. Is there very much besides in the play to recommend it? Would not another play be doomed, by the nature of the case, to fall flat...
...soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake...
...charged, are things of the past. We take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic Association officials do, will make such a meeting an entire...
When, however, the President turns from the present to the future, when he ends his description of the abuses and commences his recommendation of remedies, the great body of students will falter in foilowing him. The President names a number of possible remedies, and probably does not intend that all should be applied at once. Exactly what remedies, however, he would have applied first are not specified and therefore all the remedies are presented as equally imminent. Some of these measures have much in them that will recommend them to the students, but, on the other hand, there...
...belief that the President would, when it came to a question of action, recommend only mild measures, and that he really intends to hold these measures in reserve in case the mild measures should not be sufficient. We consider it unfortunate, nevertheless, that he mentions any such extreme measures at all. The great body of students in Harvard today feel that some reform in athletics is needed. These students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other...