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...those who, in the language of the catalogue, are "in indigent circumstances" and "in need of aid,"--a restriction which brings it about that the scholarship at Harvard is not, as at Oxford, prevented "from being associated with poverty, or with the defective breeding which unfortunately poverty too often brings with...
...among the first of Shakespere's works comprising his second period--that of the comedies. It naturally divides itself into two parts, the story of the bond and the story of the casket, and the plot centres about Portia and Bassanio. The story of Shylock, although often considered the centre of the plot, in reality forms merely a supporting set of incidents. There is unhappily one great defect in the play, the anticlimactic effect of the last act. It was recognized by Booth, who omitted it in all his performances, and is generally attributed to Shakespere's comparative inexperience...
Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge says: "I believe that the Uitlanders have had many causes of just complaint, that the policy of the Boers has often been short-sighted and that England is acting as any other great power would probably act in her place. I sympathize with the Boers because they are fighting heroically for their national existence and for the right to govern their own land. However mistaken they may have been in many of their acts, they have only acted in self defense. I am convinced that until almost the last moment hostilities could have been avoided...