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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...even when detached. In at least three out of the four contributions to the current Advocate, in which Incident is the motive, the suspended interest is admirably maintained. Mr. Schenck's "Paper Chase" Mr. Tinckom Fernandez's "Necessary Child," and Mr. Morgan's "Hongkong to New York," alike leave us not only with a desire for more, but with a certain childish resentment against those authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet's "Book Agent" is too incomplete even for an Incident. Something ought to "happen" in the very briefest sketch. While the American book peddler...
...interesting as well as the most important article, in the issue will be Mr. Brawley's contribution to "Varied Outlooks." To see ourselves as others see is always profitable, but it becomes something more, when it is with the discriminating sympathetic perception which Mr. Brawley brings to bear on us and our institutions. We should be spared much of the criticism to which Harvard is treated throughout the land if more of our friends were to put themselves at Mr. Brawley's unprejudiced point of view...
...Whereas, Death hath struck from us a man whose efficiency as a teaching scholar we valued supremely, whose erudition we knew to be extraordinary, yet whose personal kindness and "patient gentility" in his dealings with us we loved as qualities worth emulating, in our dealings with each other...
...leader to see things as they ought to be. The fear of change makes the ordinary man draw back-the fear of being thought eccentric, or of being thrust into obscurity by the crowd. It is the Christian watchword that responsibility rests on the individual. Wills have been given us-let us use them. Fate, heredity, chance,-these do not affect the freedom of the will. It is a ship opposed by the contrary winds of fate, heredity, and chance, but notwithstanding the ship reaches her harbor in safety...
...Ambassador Bryce, President Eliot, Horace Howard Furness, R. W. Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, W. D. Howells, G. H. Palmer, Bliss Perry, Goldwin Smith, and Andrew D. White. President Eliot traces the development of Mr. Norton's courses at Harvard-a most interesting history to follow, especially for those of us to whom Fine Arts 3 and Fine Arts 4 seemed as ancient and as necessary as sun and moon. Professor Palmer, speaking of another teacher beloved by Harvard men, says finally: "Under Professor Shaler the student gained a kindling vision of pretty much all of the natural world; under Professor...