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...LL.D., professor of Greek at the University of Chicago, delivered the third of the Lane lectures on "Life and Letters at Athens" in Emerson D yesterday evening, taking as his subject "The Case of Euripides." Dr. Shorey discussed the Case of Euripides, giving a criticism of Euripides as a thinker, a dramatist and a poet...
...melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...
...March issue of the Harvard Law Review is dedicated as a memorial to James Barr Ames, "ardent student of legal history, constructive legal thinker, master of inductive teachers, sympathetic friend of young men, deliberate of thought, firm of conviction, tolerant of opinion, gentle and modest of bearing...
...many thought the best historian to successfully gauge the character of the Greek state. His clear and concise statements of the doctrine of "might makes right," his broad criticism of a narrow policy, and his independence of prejudice and envy have made him one of the most eminent historical thinkers the world has ever produced. Thucydides's greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," is remarkably free from the multitude of trivial details and stories usually inserted by his contemporaries, presenting, on the contrary, the serious attempt of an historical thinker to present the trends and currents marked by the events...
...matter of fact, orthodoxy is universal; many men of the most heterodoxical opinions in some walks of life are narrowly orthodoxy in others. Robert Ingersoll, the remarkably heterodoxical religious thinker, is a striking example of this, as his ideas in politics were narrow-gauge republican. Opposite orthodoxy stands liberty; but in our own age the freedom of the individual is often confused with the higher and nobler liberty of the intellect and the sprit. This must needs express the liberty of the individual to attain its ends, as true liberty is the untrammeled freedom of truth...