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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Quentin," by B. Bassett and a translation of a poem of Henri de Regnier by H. B. Stanton '00. Both poems are careful work, though not especially noteworthy. The book reviews are timely, but the writers are almost too lavish in their praise of the work reviewed. The promising note about the whole number is that almost every article is by a new man, and this is a most encouraging sign...
...following is an extract taken from the book published by the literary committee, and now on sale at all the stores. "It is interesting to note that a Greek translation of "Iphigenie" by Johnannes Papadopaulos was among the books which Goethe, in 1819, presented to Harvard University 'as a mark of deep interest in its high literary character, and in the successful zeal it has displayed through so long a course of years for the promotion of solid and elegant education...
...then the diminution in courses has been working mainly through the English department. The movement is best typified by the fact that now students who anticipate English a with grade A or B must pass satisfactorily in but 16 courses to obtain an A. B. It is interesting to note that for reasons ulterior to the shortening of the College course, the Faculty now demands the identical maximum of courses which was proposed and laid aside by a majority vote in 1889. That "any young man of fair abilities can now procure the degree in three years without hurry...
...great ethical truth to be found in "Hamlet" is the disaster, not of wickedness, but of virtue impotent and inactive. Hamlet, although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible...
...Gordon of Boston, said that it seemed strange to call the attention of any Harvard man to the great figure of Phillips Brooks. In speaking of the man as a preacher, it is worthy of note that Bishop Brooks was disappointing to one who heard him for the first time. This dissatisfaction was due to the vagueness of what he said and the rapidity with which he talked. "When I am interesting," he said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost...