Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brief for the Affirmative...
...second Yale Princeton debate took place tonight in the Hyperion. The decision of the judges was in favor of Princeton. The debate was attended by a good-sized and enthusiastic audience. The presiding officer of the evening was Judge Henry E. Howland of New York. After a brief introduction Judge Howland announced the question as "Resolved, that the income tax law of 1894 was, under the circumstances, justifiable," and declared that the addresses would be confined to the ethical, not the constitutional side, Princeton taking the affirmative and Yale the negative...
...Copeland began his varied list of subjects last evening with a brief critical sketch of Mr. Daly's revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." This play is one of the earliest, and not one of the best, of Shakespeare's works. The plot is so unreasonable, and one of the characters (Proteus by name) so preposterous, that it is easy to understand the infrequent representations of the piece. The reason for its being seldom given, however, lies more perhaps in the fact that, with the partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there...
...Henry James, in his brief biography of Hawthorne, has lamented the bleakness and restriction of the New England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...
...Brief for the Negative...