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...contributions to the world have not been inconsiderable, but they have been pitifully scant as regards men of letters, artists, and the like, so that the established order of things now decrees: Europe for art, literature, the belies lettres; America for materialism and its attendant prosperity. Although the iconoclast is a truly reprehensible percentage, no one could object to at least a slight revision of such an order of the above...
...melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...
...risk of being thought an iconoclast in a community where traditions are all too few, the writer ventures a suggestion which may seem to many too radical for even a moment's consideration...
...current number of the Advocate is unusually varied in matter, but the variety is unfortunately not indicative of excellence. The story, "A Village Iconoclast," by F. E. Greene '07, can claim as its only merit the sympathetic character drawing of the spinsters. This, however, is a quality rare in undergraduate writing, and very pleasant to find. The complete lack of it in "The Two Shippers" by H. V. Morgan '10, combined with an impossible plot, puts the story in the class of the unintentional burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least...
...verse, "In the Meadow," by C. C. Washburn, is a very pleasant phrasing of a pretty fancy; "Death," by the same writer is more pretentious, and not quite so successful. "The Iconoclast," seems to be notably reminiscent of Henley's "Invictus...