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...confront him with a crowded Trophy Room or to utilize the Writing Room where the audience could sit irregularly about the speaker or even "lounge" about the room and avoid the feeling of formal emptiness prevalent in a half-filled Living Room. The meeting would be less frigid, more lively, more pleasant for the speaker and beneficial for the audience for the absence of the empty chairs...
...editor of the Dublin Review, delivered a lecture in Emerson D yesterday afternoon on "The Character of Disraeli," Disraeli, in his rise from the masses to the foremost place in England, in the power and respect he commanded while prime minister, was very like Napoleon. In spite of his frigid reception in Parliament, and the early discouragements of his career, he remained undaunted...
...dusk, something can now be heard of the University football team. Its season, with three tie games and two defeats, has of course been too pitifully unsuccessful for the people to call "satisfactory." In points, the team lost to Harvard by a considerable margin. Of losing teams, gratitude, often frigid, is the usual consolation. But in Captain Ketcham's eleven every man of Yale takes just and exultant pride. Its struggle from impotence against Colgate to excellence against Princeton has never been surpassed by any Yale team. Its playing against perhaps the best football machine that ever represented Harvard brought...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...
...ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday, lifting a decorous mass of 6000 cold American onlookers into a crowd of passionate enthusiasts, forgetting all the forced and frigid rules of conventional mannerism, in good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body can reach in fleetness, in dexterity, in strength and in endurance; and in spite...