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...others. He is constantly introducing all manner of unhappiness brought about by terrible means, and the crimes which his characters do not commit might be regarded as not worth committing; but the play, for all its hideousness, is redeemed by the imagination and poetry it contains, Webster does not excel in his plots and characters, but his dramatic situations are very effective, and once seen are not soon to be forgotten...
There were several innovations in the second winter meeting on Saturday which had much to do with its success. The management broke away from the conventional list of events of past indoor meetings and introduced performances, which were interesting not only because of their novelty but because of the excel lent manner in which they were carried out. Such events were the ladders and double trapeze. They were exhibitions rather than contests and from the point of view of the spectator, lost nothing in interest because the performers were not pitted against each other in actual competition. The tendency...
Again, it is hard to say which of the German universities excel. To begin with there is none of the keen rivalry between German universities that exists between American colleges. Almost every student obtains his university education by travelling from one to another, and very few indeed do not attend at least two universities. Consequently, the students are not deeply attached to any particular university, and, as the government furnishes the endowments without favoritism, there is no reason why one university should forge ahead of the others. The scope and plan of all is the same, but each is particularly...
...interference and getting out of pockets. The guards, too, have received a great deal of attention, and it is hoped that in spite of their inexperience they will be able to make a creditable showing against the two Yale veterans. It is in teamwork, however, that Harvard should excel and it is only through team-work that they can hope...
...conception that many men have of Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic...