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...talk illustrated by colored slides and by moving pictures. Mr. Charles Wellington Furlong, last night at the Union, gave his large and enthusiastic audience a vivid account of the Old West, epitomized in all its glamour at the Round-up at Pendleton, Oregon...
...Entente were practically fighting for self-preservation, the Americans declared war for the sole purpose of preserving certain inalienable neutral rights. In this somewhat idyllic role they were welcomed as allies; and by supplying money and men rendered invaluable aid in defeating the Central Powers. But the glamour of idealism has begun to wear off. Confronted by the inadequacy of the League of Nations; by the somewhat high-handed apportionment of the various mandates and former colonial possessions; the every-day American feels that European and domestic interests do not coincide as well as has been proclaimed. To the suggestion...
Most of the glamour of intercollegiate athletics is linked with such big football contests as those between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and their absence this year has, in Princeton at least, tended toward a more sane and normal attitude toward athletics that is certainly most desirable. If this spirit be maintained with regard to every sport, and if some of the large overhead expense of coaching be done away with, the resumption of intercollegiate athletics is a wise course; but if athletics are allowed to interfere in any way with military training, either because of the demands on the time...
Yale and New Haven are always glad to receive visitors from Harvard; there is a sort of glamour in the atmosphere created by the arrival of crowds in holiday spirits. We like to be good hosts to you who are our guests,--indeed, in recent years, like truly good hosts, we have even been accustomed to feel extremely downcast at the time of your departure. Sometimes we feel that this discomfiture and sorrow of ours might be called carrying hospitality...
...earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope to view the past in proper perspective. Some monuments of Greek and Roman literature we shall have to depreciate, but others, in compensation, we shall esteem more highly, because more intelligently...