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...guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn in the frolic...
...third. A party of students went there that night, and painted the whole length of it with green paint. They put an inscription on it that wasn't very complimentary to the city of Cambridge, and signed the venerable old president's name to it. Of course that sort of spoiled the next day's celebration. It took two or three coats of white paint to get off the green. After the pole was up, we went out one morning and found a washbasin on top of it. How any one could have got it there nobody knew...
...weather. I wanted to see the fury of an Atlantic gale." And to the question as to what reception he had met with from his audiences, he answered: "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun not meant in any sort of malice." Then he entered upon an explanation of his mission in America, respecting many of the admirable platitudes of his lecture here, and praising the American character and our possibilities for the future...
...venture to say that Mr. Wilde fails to appreciate the essential mistake of his attitude before the public. His claim is that of a teacher, and as a teacher all are agreed he is not a success. There is an ingenuous egotism in Mr. Wilde's claim of this sort that would be amusing if it were not pitiful. Oscar Wilde has as yet done no sure work or presented any original thought which gives him any just claim upon us. The implied comparison of case with the treatment accorded such poets as Keats by the public is not only...
...Nation's Oberlin correspondent, on the other hand, displays such a lamentable confusion of ideas and of statement that the attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such...