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...came on March 16, 1881, when, in a St. Petersburg hospital, surrounded by strangers, Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life. His first love, and his last and real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar...
Contrast Mr. Bingham's tactics with those of President Lowell. President Lowell will not speak to newspapermen on any subject. Harvard, he says, does not need to advertise. No one will quarrel with him on this point; not, certainly, Mr. Bingham. But people are interested in Harvard, among them 80,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information they should at least he spared the misapprehensions and the irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation. Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress...
...question has essentially resolved itself into a quarrel between the romantic and realistic points of view. The battle opens with the realist protesting against the archaism and viciousness of the theory that the gentleman pays because he is more liberally supplied with funds. There is generally no attempt to refuse this realistic contention, and from this point the argument conventionally assumes something of the following form...
...seldom snows in Rome, and since 1870 no Pope has left the Vatican. Last week, however, came joyous confirmation of the news (TIME, Jan. 14) that Pope Pius will soon cease to be "the Prisoner of the Vatican," self-cooped in his own palace because of a quarrel with the Italian Government...
...those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...