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Moliere therefore resolved to attack the whole medical system from the stage. In this play, Le Malade Imaginaire, he has let loose the full force of his stinging satire, ridiculing to the utmost the ignorant doctors, their rough, crude methods, their bleedings, and purgatives, and above all their quackery and pretensions to knowledge. The great difficulty was to handle so repulsive a subject in such a way as to make it agreeable, and in this, Moliere succeeded to an astonishing degree, without one whit weakening his attack...
...vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...
...between the two teams are now completed, the managers here will begin immediately to get the grounds in order and to erect grand stands and open stands for the accommodation of the crowd which will be exceedingly large and will probably tax the capacities of the town to the utmost. The chances of Princeton's winning the game are now becoming the main subject of discussion. It is well known that Harvard's team is an exceptionally strong one, and our team, barring accidents to the men, is thought to be much superior to last year...
...impossible almost to judge of the playing of the Harvard men against a team so much inferior, but it was easy to see that the men did not exert themselves to the utmost. Holt did not do his best, in fact he has not played up to his limit lately. He is very much inclined to shirk...
Students are strongly urged to choose their studies with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from first to last may form a rationally connected whole. It is believed that any plan of study, deliberately made and adhered to, will be more profitable than studies chosen from year to year, without pain, under the influence of temporary preferences...