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...Intercollegiate Civic League, formed a few years ago, comprises the civic and political clubs in about thirty large colleges, with the object of raising the standard of public and political life by means of the college man's influence. Its growth has been rapid and extensive...
Professor Bury is one of the most eminent of English historians, his edition of "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" being regarded by many as the standard. Besides having further edited "Freeman's History of federal Government in Greece and Italy," and "Free-man's Historical Geography," he was written several books on the great historical periods of Greece and Rome...
...approach to uniformity and properly welded end to end. It is of course true that in a series of twenty-seven volumes by authors of widely differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions a high standard alike of matter and literary quality has been maintained throughout. The average of excellence is indeed quite on a parity with that afforded by recent German, French, and English enterprises of similar scope and method, while many of the volumes will no doubt take permanent place as notable contributions...
...club. The League, formed a few years ago, consists of the civic and political clubs of about thirty of the leading, colleges and universities of the country, and its object is to form a bond between men in the various colleges who are interested in raising the standard of public and political life and further interest other men in the work. Delegates are expected from the Universities of Colorado, North Dakota, Louisiana, and the University of Chicago, beside all the large eastern colleges. The convention will be presided over by 11. M. Gilmore '08, the president of the League...
...fiction is not up to the standard of the more solid portion of the number. "The Tryst of the Princess Yvonne" is ambitious, but the ambition has not o'erleapt itself; indeed, it has fallen very short. The dramatic situations fall to stand up, and the ending of the tale leaves' the reader quite unmoved. The"Cupid in Yorkshire," by E. W. Huckel, is very much better, but might more properly have been entitled "The Precocious Child," for the powers of observation and reasoning displayed by the supposed narrator, are of a high order, and are properly recognized...