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...Droppers' essay on "Robert Louis Stevenson" presents a mature and careful criticism of the works of that gifted writer. The style, a little involved at first, becomes clearer and more forcible as the essay progresses, and is marred by but a very few inelegancies. The light in which Stevenson's works are regarded is eminently just; and though the admiration bestowed on them admits of many qualifications, their inspiring cheerfulness and whole someness cannot be denied...
...system makes the case any better? Nobody is likely to do that. Or will some of our colleges say in substance to the father, Twenty-five years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that any of the reformed want it all. We should suppose that they would wish the superiority of the new education...
...What rhetorical ends are sometimes sought by the absence of perspicuity? Illustrate. What is pointed out by Kant as the paralogism of Rational Psychology? Would your ideas on this point have been clearer at the beginning of the paper...
...pages given what he calls "some of the keys of the instrument upon which Emerson plays his mighty Hymn of Life," and if rightly understood, they may indeed open some of the meetings he speaks of to many who have not before understood them. Yet he can hardly be clearer than Emerson. He endeavors to emphasize, by means of more prolix English, that Emerson had us understand that in each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell...
...18th, was published a letter from Mr. Edward D. Page, a graduate of Yale, under the title, "Two Decades of Yale and Harvard - A Retrospect." It is a comparison of the history of Yale and Harvard for the last fifteen years. It would be difficult to give a clearer statement of the facts and figures than Mr. Page has done here. We copy as follows...