Word: seene
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Paul Revere Hall, a man about town, Professor Lasher, a geologist, and Obediah Ham, a grind, go to the polar regions together to see Hi-Kaya, the chief of the northern tribe, and prevail upon him to return with them to America. In the second act they are seen at Sheepshead Bay race track. In the third act they become involved in international complications in the polar regions. English, German, French and Austrian warships with their officers are trying to get possession of the country, but finally relinquish their claims to the United States. The sentimental part of the play...
...ideals. We have, then, so far, a drawn battle between the advocates of the supremacy of facts and of ideals. But the greatest of our ideals is that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist, is to admit it inconsistent with what does exist. But though we have never experienced the completion of ultimate facts, because their completeness...
...final lecture, "Tendances des Jeunes Romanciers," yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Some of the writers he discussed were Pierre Louis, Maurice Barres, Paul and Victor Marguerite and Jean Lorrain. He divided the writers into different schools, but said there was a general tendency of all which could be seen during the last ten years. This tendency was marked by a change from writing for art's sake alone, to writing for a purpose. Instead of placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that...
...purposes to study in his lectures, is not the caricaturists, but the painters of the French home life, which is so little known abroad. Many of these writers are known personally to M. Le Roux, and it is through them that the various aspects of true French can be seen...
...tables. President Eliot says: "One might suppose that the most immediate effect of victory or defeat in athletic sports would appear in the number of preliminary candidates and of final candidates for admission in the following year. Examining first the column of preliminary candidates, it will be seen at once that there is no relation between athletic victory or defeat for Harvard, and the increase or decrease of preliminary candidates in the following year. Thus, the years 1894, 1895, and 1896 were years of uniform defeat; yet, on the whole, the number of preliminary candidates increased substantially. The year...