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...sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race and erected statues to his skill, his service and his memory...
...from me, however, to insinuate even indirectly that the rights and privileges of the gentlemen who officiate there are not indeed supreme and absolute. But I should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
...Foster outlined the great possibilities for action which the coming era will open to young men, and went on to show that the call to religious work here and in the East is no less urgent than that to the domain of politics and government...
...French Revolution, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, brought on by its excesses a reaction against the ideas of the eighteenth century, and among other things reawakened the old religious sentiment. The reaction showed itself with Chateaubriand in the domain of poetry and art, and with Joseph de Maistre in the realm of philosophy and politics...
...becoming more and more the fashion for play wrights to publish their works in book form, and thus to protest against being regarded as outside the domain of pure literature. Mr. Pinero and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones have already vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...