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...since ceased to be whether or not the Glee Club was justified in withdrawing from a contest the character of which it did not consider high enough to be worth while. Various enticing ramifications of the subject have been discovered. Every week some alumnus glimpses a new and enchanting prey, gives a view halloo and writes to the Bulletin about the pleasures of the chase. There appears an aesthetic issue: the contention is raised that the club should confine itself to music that allows it to roar like a lion at supper-time. There is an etymological issue which drags...
...from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts of trumpets; Say, rather, I am no one or an atom. . . . . . . Well, what then? Should...
...cultural heritage of the new Japan is identical with that of the old, Europe has played the unsuccessful alchemist, in stirring things up without changing their nature. Japan, with her numbers and her new activity, must now attract the social student, as a portent rather than a prey...
...failing to state which of his classmates he did recall, Mr. Depew left each of the three prey to the impression that Mr. Depew knew him for a living man no longer. And to each of the three it was quite apparent that Mr. Depew had lost his heart, if he had not sold his soul, to healthily, vigorously mature '89. So that even were a '56 reunion patched up after all, they could hardly hope to find their old classmate the contented, wholehearted companion of years gone...
...direct opposition to the University in their ideals of education, if that term can be used for the objects which they foster. The tutoring school is a caricature of modern education, a pedagogical buzzard hovering on the outskirts of an institution of learning. And when it chooses to prey upon men preparing for divisional examinations, of all things, the incongruity is almost laughable...