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...closing its doors to Mrs. Pankhurst, may I not have the privilege of your columns to urge all the undergraduates who can, to hear her speak at Brattle Hall, for the double purpose of thus making amends for the University's lamentable blunder and of hearing one of the ablest orators of the day? As one who has, professionally, listened to most of the leading American public men, I feel that her address at Carnegie Hall last year was one of the very greatest from any source it has been my good fortune to hear. I doubt very much...
...Fogg Museum of paintings by H. G. E. Degas. The painter was born in 1834, and is still living. Some of the most important works of the master are exhibited, with reproductions of other pictures and drawings. As we all know, Degas is in many respects the ablest French painter of the past generation. The Ballet and the Race Course were his favorite subjects. What interested him most he painted best. The pictures have appealed to the public because of the popular subjects painted and the excellence of the painting. They have appealed to painters as examples of technical ability...
...years later I became interested in the situation in St. Louis, where Mr. Folk was investigating the corruption in the board of aldermen. The aldermen confessed who had bribed them and it was found that they made up the ablest, most courageous, and most enterprising citizens of the city, as had been the case in New York. They were after franchises and grants,--in other words, privileges. Then I went up to Minneapolis and found the condition of corruption the same. Here they had gone still further and criminals were invited to come to the city to do their work...
...celebration of the poet's tercentenary; and it deserves the high praise of being called worthy of its lofty theme. Mr. George Meredith, whom also we ought particularly to delight to honor, since Harvard men were among the first to recognize his peculiar genius, is the subject of the ablest article in the issue. It is not a criticism which can be termed original, learned, or profoundly analytical; but it is an appreciation which, by means of cleverly intermingled quotations and allusions, clearly presents the notable qualities of Mr. Meredith's work...
...often a difference in the language of two representatives, and in such cases the common language is always French. The responsibilities of an ambassador are great, but have been greatly lessened by the easy communication between country and representative. To fill these positions of responsibility we must have the ablest men of our country and we look to our universities to furnish such...