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...delight to be a critic of a "Critique" when one can concur so heartily with Mr. Emerson. The realistic photograph, holding the mirror up to Main Street life, may be useful and instructive, but for those of us who understand that the primary function of literature is to please, a return from a personification of the average and the ordinary as characters to the standards of the old teachers will be welcomed indeed. Men are by their action happy or the reverse, but that action comes of their qualities. It is the inspired, the illustrious in rank and fortune...
...expense perhaps of long litigation. The lawyer in the first place is a buffer, because after he has heard the story he tells them of the various steps that must be taken to assert their rights and the length of time required for each, and he makes them understand that whatever the outcome of the litigation may be, the end is not likely to be reached for some years, the result is doubtful and the expense certain. He may be obliged to tell them also that their view of their rights is exaggerated, and that they have not been wronged...
...final choice is as wise, as it must have been, difficult. "Each in His Generation", by Maxwell Stretchers Burt, published first in Scribbler's Magazine, is undoubtedly and understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...
...vernacular. The texts are standard books in American Colleges, like Kimball in Physics, Alex, Smith in Chemistry, Weber in History of Philosophy, Gide in Political Economy, but recitation, discussion and lectures are in the vernacular. As a result, students are unable to memorize, and are compelled to understand the subjects in order to pass their work. Thought is stimulated in the students and teaching interest in the instructors. A trained native teacher, speaking in terms of "mother-thought" as well as in the mother-tongue, can achieve results with native students whose psychology he thoroughly understands, such as would...
Anyone who has spent the last five or six weeks endeavoring the locate those who have the authority of renting rooms in Randolph, Dunster and Apthorp House will understand what an inefficient and apparently discourteous attitude those agents take towards the would-be applicant. Indeed, it is strange that these dormitories which stand high in undergraduate estimation should seemingly have passed so completely out of the hands of the college. Men applying for rooms in college dormitories under the Bursar's jurisdiction can always be sure of courteous and careful attention. Slipshod indifference, however, seems to be they keynote...