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...translation of his longest and best fiction. With his accustomed subtlety and melancholy it pictures the life of a young man in Vienna who lives for pleasure only, his various entanglements, his interest in and creation of music, his friends both in the gay upper society and the humbler middle class. Schnitzler here, as always, regards life as a poetic dream. The meaning and moral of his novel are woven skillfully into the substance, and the characters are always real people caught into the mystery of life. Schnitzler writes always with the utmost distinction; but the range of his work...
...Nation. She answers it with another question: "where is the whole panorama of college and university life in America today among men as well as women, is the courage and mental grasp to see what that is new in a rapidly changing world needs championing and support?" In humbler but more outspoken phrasing, she charges the colleges with conservatism and blindness to the radical movements of the country. Such a suggestion is refreshingly unconventional. We have become accustomed, during the last few years, to hear warnings from press and political sources against the menace of perverting young minds with radical...
...entering the gate on Garden street, one finds, on the left hand, arranged in a roockery, a choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk be now continued through the main paths...
...other institution in the country. Students who have the opportunities afforded by an institution like Harvard, with its traditions and its long line of well-known graduates, are apt to forget that work just as noble, if not so prominent, is being done by smaller institutions which deal with humbler classes of people. Lectures on subjects like this tend to broaden views and stimulate kindly feelings and no man who takes a liberal view of education can afford to miss them. We bespeak for Mr. Turner a cordial reception from the students and a kindly interest in the subject which...
...soothing to note that few take the trouble to expose the fictitious corruption of our smaller, and less famed colleges. The public neither knows nor cares about these humbler institutions. So, on the whole, it is best to take any newspaper slander as a delicately concealed compliment to our importance. If the New York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale...