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...Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom...
...University is deplorable. Much of the influence of Harvard University is dependent today upon a strict avoidance of religious creeds and prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent no unanimity of attitude on religious questions. A contribution to the Fund from Harvard University might presuppose something very much akin to such unanimity. Especially unwarrantable would the contribution appear since the Fund is designed to support a Committee Meeting to plant "the religion of Jesus" in India, a meeting "which makes demands upon the intelligence and the abilities of Federation members in excess of any other meeting so far held...
...curse of systematization is to embrace the modern world it could well start with devising a means whereby these former exams might be found in less than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes...
...roasting of the cocoa bean . . . requires a certain tact which is akin to inspiration...
...dare remain at all in the humanistic tradition, has written in the current Yale Review an article on Realism in the modern theatre. Here he tries to show that there is, in addition to and more important than the the exterior reality, the internal truth, the truth most akin to the universal. Here is departing not one whit from Aristotelian precepts. The Executive Editor of Liberty might read Stark Young's article. It may be more easily obtained on Park Avenue than the Poetics. At all events, as the editor of a paper which is supposedly attempting to place some...