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Above all other poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover...
...defiance of any rules, however stringent. Such play can only be discouraged by absolute intolerance on the part of players and spectators alike. In the intensity of the desire to win and in the fierce excitement of a game, there is often tolerated a great deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When the whole attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present...
...with matters athletic, has again started the question of possible action by the Faculty on intercollegiate athletic contests. The direct result of the disturbance will be the abridgement of the particular privileges of the class in athletic sports, as furnishing the best means of punishment at hand, and the indirect result may be the opening up of the whole problem of collegiate athletics. The desire on the part of the so-called conservatives of the Yale Faculty is to reduce the proportions of athletics by cutting off all freshman contests. The opportunity for pushing such a plan is unexpectedly offered...
...subjects for the Toppan Prize are: Local government in England in 1600; separation of Church and State in the United States; how far is the extension of democracy modifying methods of direct and indirect taxation...
...Indirect taxes are preferable to an Income Tax in the U. S. - (a) Income Tax unsuited for U. S. - (1) Poor Civil Service: J. A. Hill in Quarterly Journal of Economics, VIII, 92 (Oct. 1893). - (2) Unstable incomes. - (b) National government should not interfere in the domain of State and Municipal taxation: Public Opinion...