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...best poem is the "Ballade of Decadeney," being a retort to Max Nordau, "Lest We Forget" borrows its title as well as its metre from Kipling's Recessional, but beyond this and its religious character the connection is not clear. In fact, the second half of the poem will be a puzzle to the ordinary reader...
Since Dr. Abbot's reply to Professor Royce's critique in the June number of the Journal of Ethics the literature on the controversy has grown rapidly. In the July number of the periodical a reply by Professor Royce to Dr. Abbot appeared, and in the same number a retort by Dr. Abbot, which was to have been the final word in the matter was to have appeared as well, but did not owing to a misunderstanding between the Editors and Dr. Abbot in regard to the character in which this last retort should be framed. Dr. Abbot then made...
...appears that a letter was written by Professor Royce threatening legal proceedings in case Dr. Abbot's retort should be printed as a pamphlet and offering as an editor of the "International Journal of Ethics" a publication of the article provided personalities should be avoided...
...graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms can do no harm, and very often do much good, and certainly do not call for such a spiteful and childish retort...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...