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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curtain in the Roman theatre was not raised at the beginning of a play, but fell into a sort of box under the stage. A similar plan has been followed in Sanders, where the curtain which has been made falls on the Roman principle. The scene painted upon it is a copy of the famous relief in the British Museum in which the god of the theatre, Dionysus, comes with his train to supper with a dramatic poet. The whole forms an admirable work...
II.Close of Lectures at Cornell University.In bidding you farewell I would once more remind you that while it is no man's duty to read much, it is every scholar's to read well; that is, to read real books and to read them in some sort as their mate. When I say a book, I do not mean so much printed paper held precariously together by two covers, and whose continued existence is only assured to it by a place in one of those almshouses for decayed literary reputations,- a great library-I mean a book which has that...
...here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country to the newest, I feel myself in some sort an accredited ambassador from the Past, the representative of tradition, the pledged advocated of those seemingly unprofitable studies, which yet have their incalculable use in liberating the mind and in quickening and elevating the soul. AEsthetic culture rounds the circle of our attainment, saves us from becoming mere specialists...
...print in another column a high compliment on the gentlemanly tone which prevailed at the "Harvard Night." Precisely this sort of compliment was not expected from the good old Transcript...
...increased, there seems to be no escape from a situation in which every accession to the Library would be accompanied by an equal depletion. It is to be hoped that some way of building the much needed extension of the Library will be found, before further movements of this sort are rendered necessary...