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...seemed to be the favorite number in the second part. As in the last concert given here by this quartet, the number of college men present was few. When such splendid opportunities for hearing the highest and purest form of music are presented to us, it is difficult to understand why men do not avail themselves of these privileges. The next concert will be on March 21st...
...Jellinek said that to understand Burke we must take into account the circumstances that surrounded him. He never forgot his native country, and his speeches on Irish questions form the most valuable of his works. Burke was conservative and a utilitarian, always calm and just in his opinions and his actions. He wished to place Ireland on an equal commercial footing with England, and endeavored to show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England...
...literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...clock under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Henry Villard, of New York, will speak in German on "Das Deutschland von Heute." Mr. Villard is a fine German scholar, has traveled considerably in Germany, and has been in close relations with Prince Bismark, so that those who understand German, by attending the lecture tonight, will undoubtedly learn much that is of interest in regard to the present political outlook of Germany...
...rather hard to understand why, from a class of over three hundred, only ten men have presented themselves as candidates for the tug-of-war team. It may be that the men do not realize how much interest is taken in the tug-of-war contests at the winter meetings that in these contests class feeling finds expression as at no other time, except at the class races in May. Rope and anchor work are not hard to learn, and it only requires practice to make any ordinarily strong man serviceable on a tug-of-war team. If Ninety...