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...increased, there seems to be no escape from a situation in which every accession to the Library would be accompanied by an equal depletion. It is to be hoped that some way of building the much needed extension of the Library will be found, before further movements of this sort are rendered necessary...
...taking to its work in good shape. Since it deserves support, and is the only athletic organization to ask for it, we expect from Ninety-seven a handsome response. We hope this year to see no frantic appeals for more money at the last moment; it is an unpleasant sort of event and there does not seem to be any good reason now why it should occur...
...reason for this; not a few Cambridge people are so lenient in their admiration for youthful strength and dash, that they do not mind scurrying to one side of the walk, and, in muddy weather, of being generally bespattered. But for every one who does not object to this sort of thing there are probably two who do object, and object strongly. Now the matter does not seem to us to be a very serious one, and it calls for only a very little thoughtfulness on the part of the crew men. It must simply be recognized that the sidewalk...
There is hardly any individuality which is not worth the closest study. Every character has its own atmosphere, and as an actor divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given...
...Yale and one Princeton debate. Intercollegiate debates are as yet in their infancy. They are just making themselves established as recognized and well-known institutions of the University. The policy of the debating societies ought to be such as to make them still better established. Now to make any sort of activity established as a university institution, two things are necessary,- first, the activity must be made of such a character as to merit general support, and, secondly, it must be conducted in practically the same way year after year, so that students shall learn to expect and to await...