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...tragedies of the art of acting that when the last cur tain falls there is nothing to hold the expression of a great personality for future generations. Sarah Bern hardt is gone, and those who do not hold the impress of her dynamic genius on the tables of reminiscence can know her only as a cloudy legend, obscured by time and by the many puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful...
Alexander Bern Bruce '15, Toppan, Lawrence...
...seventh International Zoological Congress will meet at the University Medical School this summer from August 19 to August 23. This will be the first of these congresses to be held in America, as the other six were at paris, Moscow, Leiden, Cambridge, England, Berlin and Bern, respectively...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by dividing the consideration of his subject into three parts-first, Emerson and Carlyle as men; second, as writers; third as moralists and teachers. The two men were widely different in the circumstances of their birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant...