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...particularized, emphasized, dramatized, sentimentalized, moralized and painstakingly advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
...difficult to decide just what to conclude from the startling information that 2300 Harvard students do not eat. Whether this is merely an extreme manifestation of the beloved "indifference," or whether these students have developed a stoic philosophy which nips incipient appetites in the metaphorical bud, is at present impossible to say. The fact remains that every day, this by no means negligible number is unaccounted for in the respectable eating houses of Cambridge...
...eight centuries ago, in the year of the Hegira 517 (or A. D. 1123 by our calendar) that Omar Khayyám, the Anacreontic astronomer-poet of Persia, laid down his lute and passed with gentle stoic smile to the tomb he had chosen "in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over...
During the coming year, the Classical Club will study "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" in reference to source and influence, and also to Stoic philosophy in general. If the club has time to study another Greek author, it will spend the rest of the year on the works of Aelian...
...pleasantest occasion of the four-year course. It is doubtful whether any large purpose would be served by having 1917 pass form college unsung and unrejoiced. The German arms will not by one day be rendered less invincible. Nor will the members of the class be rendered more stoic for enduring the fortunes...