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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Husband Versus Poet" is a short tale having for its theme the story of a poet who tried his wife's constancy by adopting the plan of sending her ardent love-letters in an assumed hard and some of his most seductive love-sonnets. After much of this sort of thing, the poet's wife writes to her unknown admirer that she loves her husband and is faithful to him and hates the "namby-tamby verses which have been sent her. Dr. Jekyll, the husband, is complacent on learning the truth; but Mr. Hyde, the poet, is frantic with rage...
...life is the readiness and freedom with which every man discusses and criticises whatever concerns Harvard men as a body. This is the result and direct expression of the strong individuality which is the distinguishing feature, if not the sum and substance, of Harvard life. There is not that sort of unity here which brings absolute subjection to authority. In many respects this is a good thing; in some respects it is a dangerous thing. It unquestionably develops individual strength and originality of character; but it is very apt to take a form of expression which is not understood...
...something, but is not essential to the satisfaction we derive from it. Whether we win the game at Springfield or not, the really substantial glory of the foot ball season, the work done by Captain Trafford and his men, will remain the same. They have overcome discouragements of every sort and more than ever shown the wholesomeness of athletic enthusiasm...
...first number on the programme was Mendelssohn's Overture "Hebrides." The work opens with the introduction of a theme which is repeated, again and again, by different instruments, a sort of answering from the wood instruments to the brass. In the middle is introduced a duet for clarionet with a soft accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra. At the end of each variation of the main theme the whole orchestra works up to a climax so that the effect of the whole on the hearer is that of repeated strokes which die away so quietly that their frequency...
...Cummings ended his talk with a description of Toynbee Hall, in London, where he spent some time himself, studying the condition of the society in the famous Whitechapel neighborhood. This Hall is a sort of club totally free from the church in every way. It is not distinctively a portion of the Extension movement, but is intimately connected with it in many ways...