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There is something impressive and even ominous in any of these pictures. But the creator of "Erewhon" leaves us one small source of comfort. Mechanical contrivances cannot yet propagate their kind...
...these times of quantitative production and accomplishment "en masse", it is generally supposed that if a man works hard enough he will eventually reach the top--either in material or non-material gain. Consequently it is somewhat surprising to learn that the creator of "Nick Carter", having penned forty million words in his lifetime, died practically penniless,--a suicide. America, the builder of physical colossi, might have been expected to reward such industry, if only on the basis of bulk alone; and certainly "Nick" achieved a popularity in his day. But apparently literature and the material world are still things...
...would be impossible to accuse the creator of Portia, Lady Macbeth, and Rosalind of being hostile to "women's rights." Yet "The Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...
...members of Phi Beta Kappa held in the Trophy Room of the Union Monday night, it was decided to revive the prewar practice of holding dinners at regular intervals. For the annual banquet which is to be held in May, the following officers were elected:--R. E. Eckstein '20, creator; G. W. Allport '19, poet; and F. M. Carey '20, Latin Odist...
...sincerity, namely, which is born of a delight in mere making and shaping. This delight and this sincerity are of a lower order certainly, but they are prerequisite. Romeo chants his real love for Juliet in the noble language he has learned in sonnetting the shadowy Rosaline. Romeo's creator strikes out that noble language clear and true only after long years of experimentation in technical devices and sonorous nothings. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson,--nearly all, indeed, who have most completely mastered the literary art,--have had their periods of aureate preciousness beside which anything in the undergraduate poetry...