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...worded. Follows an essay on Clough by Miss C. N. Bynner, a new departure this, a most auspicious one on a most auspicious day. Some old Greek has asserted that it was from the perfect style the ladies of Athens commanded in their letters, that attic prose learnt its brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable...
...about time the students of Princeton College learnt that it takes money to win victories from other colleges. It is about time that those men who imagine that they support the team by betting on them, learnt the falsity of their position. If some of the men who supported the athletic team by this method had given a little of their spare, cash to the association, the results would have paid even from their selfish financial point of view...
Attention is called to the fact that ball playing in the yard is against the regulations. Several men have learnt this to their sorrow of late...
...Greeks had not time and means adequately to apply this instinct, and where we have gone a great deal further than they did, it is this instinct which is the root of the whole matter and the ground of all our success; and this instinct the world has mainly learnt of the Greeks, inasmuch as they are humanity's most signal manifestations of it. Greek art, again, Greek beauty, have their root in the same impulse to see things as they really are, inasmuch as Greek art and Greek beauty rest on fidelity to nature,-the best nature...
...ample verification last week, when we had an opportunity of testing the track at Exeter, which we unhesitatingly say is the best five-lap track in the kingdom, owing solely to the way it is raised on the outside all the way round." In our own experience we have learnt that the fastest running tracks in England are those with raised corners, and that such men as George, Snook and Cowie all prefer raised corners to level ones. We believe Dr. Sargent has it in mind to raise the corners of the new track in the spring, and we understand...