Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that the University of Oregon is contemplating adoption of the Honors Course emphasizes once again the rapidity with which this modification of the tutorial system is spreading throughout the colleges of the United States. That the essential spirit behind this important development in educational methods remains the same whether at Harvard, at Swarthmore, at Wisconsin, or at Oregon is true, but there are certain phases in its advance which merit serious question...
Mozart is as perfect as a Fragonard, and as naughty. That it is historically absurd matters not at all. That it may even miss the spirit of the composer almost fails to matter. All that seems of lasting importance is that Mile Printemps should have the most perfect, manicoloured bubble over which to dance ever so lightly and never too long. With that and the master of ceremonies air of M. Guitry in their pocket the audience goes away well pleased...
M.LICHTENBERGER'S book is a good introduction to the spirit life and works of the hair-raising critic-philosopher-poet Fredrich Nietzsche. As a whole the treaties are concise and brief, the style, simple and clear. The book is not a criticism of Nietzsche but an apology and an appreciation. The adverse critics are frowned on as irreverant and unjust. The gaps in the philosophy are filled in, the rough places smoothed over. It is strange to see the disciple swallow the master in a way that old Friedrich never swallowed anyone or anything. This over-adulation occupies a minor...
Quite different in spirit is a group of four choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience". Music, it has been said, is the most emotional of the arts, but the emotion of laughter has perhaps never been so well expressed as when Sir Arthur Sullivan succeeded in incorporating in his melodies the humor of Gilbert's words...
...cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house...