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...guiding influences which have surrounded the boy are gone, and the man is at liberty to think and do as he chooses. It is not unnatural that he is tempted to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and to dabble in sin in the sudden reaction from enforced virtue. The absence of responsibility seems the essence of freedom. Yet freedom is in truth quite different--it is complete responsibility for self-government. The boy acted under orders; the free man acts for himself, and is completely and alone responsible for his motives and aims...
...Turn in the Way," by C. R. Saunders '01, is an interesting analysis of the train of thought of the college man who shrinks at the sudden realization that the world's work is before him. The sketch is artistically clothed with a whispering summer night but it is unsatisfying, because it is issueless...
...eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from "Peg Woffington." The programme includes the episodes of Woffington's visit to Triplet's lodging, of the portrait, and of Mrs. Vane's sudden return when Vane is entertaining the players from Covent Garden...
...sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world...
...disadvantage of promoting discontent. Yet this is not without reason for by education we create a condition of want; the thing that differentiates mankind is want; and there is no civilization without want. We must face our own problem then and deal with it accordingly. There is no sudden way to stop this condition, but there is a way for men to alleviate it. Discontent there will be, but we can lessen its proportion. And it is in the uniform spirit and determination of all college men, to do the best for their country that will accomplish this result...