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...great and unmerited woe,- what a marvelous harmony of discords! When we have seen this play, we do not, it is true, carry away a single definite impression, or a moral expressed in words; but we do feel in our hearts a dumb sense of the hideousness of wrong and of the sanctity of suffering: we feel the weight of the mysteries of this life, and we are made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather...
...certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote, "was not owing to thinking wrong but to not thinking...
...throw considerable light on his peculiar character, for in them he expresses most unreservedly his ideas on people, on women, on love, on himself-indeed, on everything on which he had ideas. Boswell is one of those people we never think of blaming. He seems as incapable of wrong-doing as a child, and even while we feel a certain and even while we feel a certain sense of annoyance with him, at times, still we cannot condemn him. There is something charming in his folly. But the most striking feature of these letters, I think, lies in the accounts...
...such a case as this, power, as is so common, is on the side of wrong; and if a parent is obstinate, much trouble may be experienced in managing him. So frequently is this the fact that one hears every day of undutiful fathers usurping the reins of family government and ruling in their son's stead...
Leaving aside all questions of right or wrong, we should like to ask what necessity there is for the crew to have striped blazers, what necessity there is of taxing the students unnecessarily. The crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and no complaint is made. But why should $150.00 be spent in buying them a loafing shore uniform. Such is the price which blazers, caps, and white trousers cost. They are not worn nor needed by the men while in Cambridge. To provide them with such luxuries for a three week's stay in a secluded cabin...