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These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reducators | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

...school tradition has too frequently conceived the examination as a barrier to be scaled, a hurdle to be strategically vaulted. Rarely does the school boy or the school girl or the college student, indeed--stop to inquire how examinations in English, or in any other subject, may serve as sequent means whereby added power either in communication or interpretation may be systematically and permanently acquired. Teachers who have recognized this potency of a program in recurrent examinations may wisely question how the defence attitude which many classes have unconsciously set up may be effectively broken down. Teachers who discern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 2/3/1931 | See Source »

...effects of the Frence Revolution as an example of the influence of Franch on our literature - evidence enough of this will be found in the work of the so-called Lake Poets. But on the fact of that influence I would lay stress, and consequently on the sequent fact that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Readings. | 3/1/1887 | See Source »

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