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...were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans. The liquor laws forbid sales of liquor to minors, on Sundays, on election day, to drunkards or men who have been seen drunk within six months, within four hundred feet of a schoolhouse. They forbid also the placing of any sort of screens in doorways or windows of saloons. The league was formed to enforce these laws, and has thus far confined itself chiefly to the first two restrictions. This has been done by prosecution, resulting in conviction, 24 cases of 26. Two years ago not one dealer in Cambridge obeyed...
...that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward the proper cultivation of the ability...
...find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained, jokes and puns clarified, and bits of quite original humor-of the very best sort, of course. Indeed, it is to be regretted that more men do not practice this note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts, not on a blank sheet of paper-for that would be selfish-but on the pages of the books that they are reading. Then...
...muscles, tense with the excitement of the thrilling narrative I had just read, would not respond to my will. A stronger power than my own seemed to hold them fast, and they remained as rigid as if they had been turned to stone. I suppose I was in some sort of a trance; for while I was confined as securely by my inert body as if I were in a close cage, my mind was as active as ever...
...poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which is finally won for the Parliament and Calvinism by a dashing charge of the celestial Ironsides led by Christinstead of Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly grand. Like all great literary creations, he is really the embodiment of the ideals...