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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Much has been written as to whether morality can exist apart from religion. Mr. Matthew Arnold, taking a middle position, defines religion as morality touched with emotion. It is undoubtedly true that if there were no religion a minority would possess a certain kind of morality, but true morality can not exist without religion...
...Four Sketches" possess little merit. Perhaps the sketch of "Oblivious of Narka" is the best of the four although even this does not rise above the dead level of mediocrity. With this possible exception, the sketches seem strained and unnatural, and especially applicable is this criticism to "A Surmise about Happiness...
...broader reform spirit than its name would imply, and from the nature of the address delivered last year under the auspices of the society by Congressman Breckenridge on the "Responsibilities of Power," that the organization was gradually tending to become what it is most desirable for the University to possess, a general reform club. To change the Free Wool Club into such an institution, or rather formally to rename it and remodel its constitution to suit the actual modifications in its character is the gist of the proposition which the executive committee will make before the meeting tonight...
...College Kodaks" are decidedly the most interesting reading of the number, showing an originality which most of the larger articles of the number do not possess. The first and third "Kodaks" seem to be the best of the five...
...charm which these complete units of musical texture called periods or phrases may possess, is one of the most remarkable facts of music. Analogies from other departments of art suggest that their unity itself may be a secret of their beauty; a melody or a complete harmonic sequence impresses us as a growth from a germ of musical form...