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...emotions of the stage. The experience of the greatest actors has shown that really sincere emotion has failed to produce a convincing portrayal on the stage. After this evidence it appears logically necessary, in spite of the disappointment to those who believe in progress through the ages to revert to Diderot's paradoxical dogma that art is not nature but nature intensified and sublimated through the medium of the imagination. If our actors can not feel and portray their emotions at the same moment, by all means do away with their feelings: if a man cannot be natural and artistic...
...Yale Graduate School (also Editor of the Yale Review) reminded every one that the original purpose of the graduate school is to equip teachers for the college; he said: "The tendency has been to take over into the graduate school the methods of the undergraduate school. . . . We should revert...
...mightiest mind, the weightiest arguments, or the most clever arrangement of facts to refute the teachings of Jesus Christ? Does it mean to infer that in the college the student learns these secret disproo's? That here his "ignorance" --the "ignorance" to which he must submit in order "to revert to religion . . . against his reason"--is shattered? That here he learns to despise Christianity because he has either discovered or been taught facts or "arguments . . . (which) . . . refute (the) words" of Christ...
Does the CRIMSON really mean to assert and hold that for this product of the college, this "man" of superior intelligence and "occult" knowledge, that for this man "to revert to religion goes wholly against his reason"? That he has had implanted in his reason" facts and arguments which refute Christ's teachings...
...comment of Manhattan papers seemed almost to revert to the great screeding days of the giant editors who are no more...