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...Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant metaphor. Moreover, let him forswear for a year the word "muse...
...continue. To quote a New York writer who has lately commented on the matter in the Transcript under the title of "Americas Juventutis:" "The 'Med. Fac.' is seldom funny any more. It is outgrown and nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows...
...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...
...adapt occidental constitutional government to an oriental country proved, however, a most difficult task, but unceasing work on the part of the Emperor. Marquis Ito's commission, and the Privy Council, resulted in the improvement of the fundamental principles of Japanese imperial government by the addition of English and American theories of constitutional government and the proclamation, on February 11, 1889, of that constitution which has since proved so beneficial to Japan...
Professor Kuno Francke Curator of the Germanic Museum, emphasized the value that such a Museum might be in helping the student to visualize his ideas of German art and "to adapt his sensual perception to the objects of his study." He spoke also of the power the Museum might become in helping to check narrow specialization, by bringing together "the art student and the philologist, the student of political as well as of literary history." Hon. Carl Schurz, President of the Germanic Museum Association spoke of the Museum as a instance of and help to international friendship between Germany...