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...graduation has now risen too high. - (b) Opportunity to save a year would be welcomed by many men. - (1) Preparing for professions. - (2) Possessing little means. - (3) Intending to enter business career. - (c) Other men might take regular four years course or enter graduate school. - (1) More serious work can be done there...
...picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. One day Garrick was asked which he considered the most difficult. "Oh, sir," replied the actor, "whether I am well or ill, in high spirits or low, I am always equal to tragedy, but comedy is a serious business." He meant that comedy requires an amount of earnestness and depth that is not usually given to it. An actor, while thoroughly appreciating it must always take a joke seriously, otherwise the humor is lost. Dogberry, for example, when he hears that the lady Hero was slandered, says "Flat burglary...
...freshmen on to a lack of restraint which was ungracious in the extreme. That their behavior may have the effect of removing all class games to Soldiers Field is an argument against it which will appeal most strongly to the thoughtless leaders of the disturbance. The most sensible and serious of the class already condemn it on better grounds...
...property qualification is especially objectionable: J. S. Mill's Representative Government, p. 173. - (a) Wealth is not a true index to - (1) ability - (2) public virtue - (3) interest in municipal affairs. - (b) It would be accompanied by serious evils. - (1) It would be difficult to determine what is "reasonable." - (2) It would be difficult to apply. - (3) It would work crudely and unequally. - (x) By excluding many good voters. - (y) By including many bad voters. - (4) It would remove a strong educational force. - (5) It would lead to agitation and discontent...
...Pach, the senior member of the firm of Pach Bros., is rapidly improving after a serious attack of pneumonia...