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...modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor, with which future historians of music may one day regard the antics of the post-Wagnerians...
...other prose contributions are less noteworthy than Mr. Wright's, both in style and substance, though they are all good exercises in narration or description. Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Smith, writing on very dissimilar subjects, both show the habit of observation and analysis and some ability at realistic portrayal. The description, by the latter, of "The New England Grandmother" is straightforward, simple and homely; so much so, in fact, that the solemn verse quotation with which it concludes has a serio-comic effect which seems hardly in place. Mr. Burlingame's story perhaps depends too much, for its impression...
...adventurous knight without fortune, applies to Touchstone for the hand of Girtred in order to enrich himself by the sale of the land left the young woman by her grandmother. Mrs. Touchstone and Girtred favor the match and the father unwillingly consents to it. Touchstone has two apprentices as dissimilar in character as are his daughters. Quicksilver, the idle prentice, leaves his master to join Sir Flash in his scheme to grow rich on Girtred's land but Golding remains faithfully at the shop. Perceiving the common affection between Golding and Mildred, Touchstone engages them to each other in marriage...
...great. They are bona fide Harvard men--the men in general the best and most reliable on a team. The records of these men are known; the records of graduate students from other colleges depends only on hearsay or on the testimonies of other athletic authorities often having dissimilar standards to our own. The reasons making advisable the disbarment of these latter men would not apply to the first...
...Medical School may proceed to the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D." Dean Peirce suggests that the same principle might be applied in suitable cases to the departments of Law and Theology as well as of Medicine. President Eliot is evidently influenced by an idea not altogether dissimilar when he deduces from the success of the Divinity School as an undenominational institution, the fact "that a theological department, conducted on scientific principles, may be a consistent and altogether desirable branch of a free university...