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...forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four and at six was delivering a lecture on aesthetics at Oxford." A classic example is Mathew Arnold, scholar and gentleman, seer and publicist...
Contrary to this seer, there seems to be no legical reason why a four hour day should not prove more beneficial to the youth of the land than to their elders. A four hour day would make unnecessary for the workman the drudgery of night school in order to gain and education. It would give greater opportunity for cultured development; it would leave more time for healthful sport, to mention only a few of its more obvious benefits. Let Mr. Edision bring on his short-time working day and stop worrying about its effect. The doleful Malthus will perhaps snare...
...Lawrence's more consecutive pronouncements. He proclaims with some justice Melville's Moby Dick the greatest book of the sea ever written. But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
...look into the future and prepare out minds for the wonders that we shall see if we live long enough. We have never observed a prophecy of that kind that did not describe the happy circumstance of movable sidewalks to relieve the human legs of virtually all exertion. The seer of the movement is the fire chief in New York city. He foresees a city in which streets will be free from vehicular traffic, such streets as there are being devoted exclusively to the use of "pedestrains", who will be passengers on moving sidewalks extending from curb to curb...
...verse, as is generally the case with undergraduate poetical efforts, is rather difficult to judge. "The Night by the Sea" is a pleasant trifle and we cannot help liking it. "Dead Leaves" and "The Seer" both have the merit of an intelligible idea, although the former is far better able to express it. It is difficult to find any justification for "Hilaria", with its tortuous rhetoric and unnatural choice of words. Probably "Captive's Prayer" comes as near being real poetry as any of them...