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...thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well-told?quite without sentimentality, sweetness or light...
...previous paragraph is, of course, quite unfair. In what it attempts to do The Outline of Literature is highly successful. Its pages, simple, succinct, easy to read, should give anyone with a modicum of intelligence a good, general, working idea of the entire, fantastic progression of the written word from the first rude scratchings on rocks to the beginnings of the Elizabethan era. Its frequent quotations should inspire in its readers a desire to turn from it to the masterpieces with which it deals. The Bible is well treated, and from a modern viewpoint. Each chapter is followed...
Yale wants to know the same thing. Not about Dartmouth, but about Yale. And Professor C. W. Mendell, Professor of Latin and Chairman of the Athletic Board of Control, leads off in The Yale Daily News with a succinct and persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education...
...education not before breathed at that meeting of that provincial assembly. "Naturally", he said, "in considering a question of this sort I turn first of all to the experience of other nations". Then, in that exquisitely finished English style of which he is past master, luminous, clean cut, succinct, he proceeded, in half the time the least voluminous of his predecessors had taken, briefly to sum up analagous educational conditions in England, France, and Germany, to deduce his conclusions, modified by conditions of American life, clearly stated, and to give his answer. "Therefore", he said, "from a consideration...
...Emeritus Eliot, with the broad view and profound insight of the scholar, has outlined the duty of the American bar to lead the way to a great legal reform. The defects of our existing institutions of law and of our methods of judicial procedure, President Eliot has presented in succinct and forcible terms, and he emphasizes particularly that public opinion is demanding reform. Here, certainly is another field in which Harvard University through the Law School may show that the higher educational institutions of the land have their thumb on the public opinion and are able and ready to prescribe...