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...memory. He differed from our Shakspere because no impulse was edited in its utterance. His was the uncensored utterance of the psychology of his soul. He made no apologies. He left much to guess at and work out. But if you have the courage and the perseverance to discard the ever obvious, you find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work and vulgarized it, as did our very original, potent-seeming Bernard Shaw. But who cares...
...republics that are springing up in Europe. They have had a chance to study the American theory of democratic government from a detached viewpoint, and when forming their own constitutions it should be interesting for us to see what they incorporate from our system and what they discard...
...three works are recognized as necessary: the Bible Shakespeare, and the Telephone Book. Dormitory rooms may usually make one substitution in this list: the alternative is the University Register Year, after year it is compiled, published, serves its use in the students daily life, and is thrown into the discard to make way for a new edition. Not a work of permanence in itself, none the less its annual appearance makes it an institution, and it represents a permanent need...
...Palmer Stadium. Today the "rejuvenated. Tiger", as the newspapers call the Princeton team, takes the field. It appears as the "mystery team" of the East. It is coming--not like so-called "mystery teams" of the past, to show a few tricks, and be shuffled off into the discard--it is coming to repeat the tricks which have worked before. "Come seven" has often meant "touchdown" to Princeton. For three years the signal has worked. No man now playing on the University squad has participated in a victory over Princeton. Narrow, indeed, is the gate, and few are they that...
There have been rumors of late that the Pinero-Jones school of drama had seen its day and was doomed to the discard. Certainly there is nothing antiquated about "Dolly Reforming Herself", nothing either in technique or in point of view that one would wish treated differently by a more modern playwright. It is the most genuinely amusing comedy that Henry Arthur Jones ever wrote, and he has had few superiors in that vein. The plot is trifling, the situation almost threadbare; yet there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire...