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...columns the whole university, instructors as well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
...Trespass," two miners, shut up in a cave, are dying of exhaustion. Mike comforts himself by constant prayer; Pete blasphemes. In time Mike's assurance that he dies in peace because the sins of the penitent are forgiven by God and by all Christian men gives Pete new hope; Pete confesses that the has sinned with Mike's wife, proclaims his repentance, and demands pardon. Mike, facing death, forgives him; but hearing the picks of the rescuing party and seeing release, strangles him. The play has strength. Mr. Silverman and Mr. Walker acted it with earnestness and dignity, but without...
...popular belief that college ideals are higher than those of the great world outside, for they are less exposed to contact with its rougher aspects. So college journalism, which may be forgiven many mistakes in style and finish, should never be guilty of any least infringement on the laws of propriety. That any publication, issued at Harvard and circulated in the College, should go beyond the bounds which civilized society erects, is an offence not only to those now connected with the University, but also to all who have labored to build up its high standards...
...turn him into a soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst of fury, he is forgiven and awarded the hand of his cousin...
...butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides the hat, which, however, is found and brought to the mistress. This is repeated several times, the butler inventing new excuses on each occasion, until he becomes so involved that he is forced to confess, whereupon he is forgiven by the master