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...unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from...
...home-made performances, they must overcome the prejudice against unpaid good acting. Those who scoff at the Dramatic Club, should give it a chance tomorrow night to prove what it can do. Those who came to hiss, will remain to applaud...
...members of the Union turned out in great numbers to applaud the victorious football team last evening, and completely filled the Living Room...
...faith in the judge as a protecting agent for carrying out the substantial requirements of law and justice. Some considerable portion of the public from time to time gets much interested, through the newspapers, in this game of council umpired, by the judge. They admire and applaud the ingenuity and spirit with which counsel take technical points for their clients, and the public press often sympathizes with and encourages this misdirected admiration. Of course, the best men in the practice of the law do not insist on technical points in favor of their clients, but rather waive them...
...play sanely convincing. Barring a little uncertainty in some of the characterization and an inevitable sense of incongruity when the Faun first appears, the play is a genuine success for those who attend the theatre to think as well as to laugh and to enjoy as well as applaud...