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Ibsen, Mr. Bang said, is destined to take a place beside Shakespere. His special contribution to literature consists in his unhesitating portrayal of every-day life, and he is the boldest craftsman of modern times. "He walks straight to the truth...
...many years, and he is always as interested in Harvard's success as the youngest and most enthusiastic undergraduate. When the fathers of those who are now in College were undergraduates, Old John was a familiar sight on Holmes field, with his shambling walk and uncouth salutations. The boldest would scarcely venture to guess at the age of this remarkable fruit seller. He is the same today as he was twenty years...
...receive the spoon stepped from the group and delivered a salutatory half in bad Latin and half in worse English. In the course of this opening speech the orator addressed the classes individually, but in this year of '65 he launched his boldest flight in welcoming the fairer part of the audience when he said: "Oh tenerae virgines graciles formosae: may the smiles never leave vestros lipsos; may the roses numquam fade ex vestris checkibus nec your bonnets numquam be larger nec your flouncibus be less...
...this time the T. F. had, as he thought, penetrated the "feeble disguise," and consequently tried hard to think of something sensational and alarming to tell him; but, failing in this, he was forced to put on his boldest look, and say he guessed the girls would n't bother the fellows...
...examinations crowded into one week, it would seem that the pretty cub has already developed into a monster whose insatiable appetite threatens us all with destruction. With prophetic foresight I contemplate in horror the consequences of its continuance among us; I see a time, not far off, when the boldest student will have fled; when these fair halls will be the home of desolation, and the recitation-rooms of University know no occupants but the ghosts of the dead. And what of those who reared the beast that shall have undone us? Will the analogy be completed...