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...Yale University. Professor Harper took for his subject the Literary Study of the English Bible. He impressed his audience with the fact that although we are living in an age when everything new is most sought for and the old ridiculed. yet the old ought not be lost sight of. Just as the literature of the ancients and their philosophy is being studied to bring out the new that is in the old, so must the Bible be studied to bring out new truths and impress them on the mind in a new way. The Bible must be comprehensively studied...
Twelfth Night.If Shakespeare could have seen his own comedy "Twelfth Night" Monday night with Miss Julia Marlowe in the leading role, he would not have been surprised that Olivia fell in love with Viola at first sight. For Julia Marlowe brings to the part of Viola an impassioned but refined youthfulness of acting which cannot but charm. Eben Plympton as Duke Orsino read his lines well but was inclined at times to be too unimpassioned. Leslie Allen and Dan Robertson as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek were unimpeachable, and the rest of the company were fair...
...study all the masterpieces. Such a plan would, moreover, increase facility in reading beyond the present insufficient standard. For it is an undoubted fact that the average student who has received second year honors and is thus recognized by the faculty as able "to translate Greek and Latin at sight," cannot read any Greek text without incessant reference to a dictionary, or at least without a strain to the attention which makes reading more painful than pleasant...
...fails to bring his text-book to the class room, or cuts one lecture out of every three, and then depends upon some generous class-mate to come to his relief, he becomes an unmitigated nuisance. For example, in a language course, wherein there is always considerable reading at sight, in which case one needs the entire use of his book to make valuable notes on the margin, it is a real hardship to a man to grant such a request, and it is nothing short of downright selfishness in any man who day after day asks this favor...
Professor C. C. Everett spoke last evening at Appleton Chapel on the tones of mind which may be called cosmopolitan and provincial. The person who lives in the city is so used to a crowd that he is free from all selfconsciousness of manner, so used to the sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise...