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...late Hammond Lamont greatest of all modern editorial writers I think--who urged unceasingly the bearing aloft of "the flaming torch of journalism". It should be borne in the domain of sport as elsewhere. As the writer has said in a foregoing paragraph, there are a few-a small minority--who have received inspiration from their new relations with those who conduct and participate in amateur sport, who have developed a sense of dignity and of responsibility, who have come to a conception of the root significance of the amateur game. But such as these are not a little mystified...
...that age of new geography and England's adventures taking practical possession of the globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters what was the most marvellous realm of its kind, the Fairy World. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $3.75. Special price...
...governing principle of life in place of a sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make him socially and righteously efficient." To the aid of a "positive and ethical humanism" is to be brought a "positive and critical religion," for "humanism cannot...
...professor of electrical engineering, are to give series of Lowell Institute lectures beginning next Monday. Professor Ferguson's talks will be on "Greece--the Forerunner of Europe," and are divided into the following groups: 1. The Great Analogy. 2. Greek and Modern Nationalism. 3. The Difficult and Dubious Domain of Economics. 4. Democracy and the Social Question. 5. The Eastern Question. 6. Small Nations and Large States. 7. Autocracy versus Federalism in the Balkans. 8. The Roman Hegemony. Liberty in its Relation to Culture...
...conspicuous, this may perhaps be sufficiently accounted for by the more abstruse character of the subjects with which he dealt and of the theses which he upheld. A rare and high personality as well as an extraordinary intellect. Josiah Royce was one of the most potent influences in the domain of high thinking in America