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Roger H. Sessions offers a generous, and enthusiastic appraisal of Mr. Ernest Newman's "Wagner as Man and Artist." In a patient and thoroughly intelligent analysis, he presents the pith of what seems to be a significant accession to the library of Wagneriana. With the exception of an exuberant challenge to those who might differ with one of his conclusions, Mr. Sessions is temperate, betrays an extraordinary sense of proportion, and a convincing ecquaintance with much that has been said for and against a unique artist...
...effort on the reader's part. "Sammie Bent's Stripes," by Frank Simonds, is nothing more than an anecdote, but it is well told, with perfect harmony of detail. "Hunting," by J. C. Grew, is a commendable attempt at word-painting. "Merton," by C. F. C. Arensberg, lacks pith and distinct purpose. It starts as a college story and finishes with two summer jilts. "My dug out," by Lyrian Alcis," has a very suitable rhythm, and sustains the writer's mood very well. It suffers, however, from repetition. A "Nigh-song" is musical and well constructed, but the imagery strikes...
...refer to the practice of shuffling feet, slamming note books, coughing, and making other disagreeable noises which has lately been so freely indulged in towards the close of recitations. The hour is not over till the bell rings. The last few minutes of the hour sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last few minutes. But more than this; it is in the highest degree rude and ungentlemanly to interrupt...
...there is another and more important point involved in the change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats...
...Economy," especially designed for the use of students in Political Economy 1. It is, in brief, John Stuart Mill's book condensed into a pamphlet of seventy-two pages. It is calculated to be of inestimable aid to a student preparing for the examination in this course, as the pith of Mill's work is so clearly brought out. In the appendix are the examinations in Political Economy 1 from 1883 until the present date. For sale by W. H. Wheeler, Harvard street, Cambridge. Price...