Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have already in your columns emphasized the rarity of performances of the second part of "Henry IV," and your criticism published on the morning of the 14th was friendly enough. But I hardly think that it is generally realized how remarkable a success the D. U. Society has achieved. It is not merely that it is "wonderfully good for undergraduates"; it is, without any allowances, an illuminating and delightful entertainment. One seldom hears Shakespere's lines read more effectively and more beautifully than by Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Hume, and Mr. Wetherell's Falstaff is something to remember. Further...
...want to see a play for the sake of its general excellence, in structure and in cast, by all means go to "Justice" at the Plymouth. But if you look for something merely amusing, avoid it; for "Justice" is a play which first of all makes you think, and then leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth...
...Wright, the most interesting reading in this issue. The editor-in-chief says: "If the Monthly could do anything, no matter how apparently insignificant, toward inducing only the men here at college to pay some attention to the really worth while thought that present conditions are occasioning, it would think the time--and the space--well spent. Of course, behind all exhortation and chatter lurks the doubt if young men--and especially young men in college--are really interested in what the world is doing...
Some seem to think that such an innovation would be too decided a departure from undergraduate traditions. However, thoughtful consideration shows that the arguments in favor of the student band outweigh this criticism...
Whatever else one may think of Gilbert Murray's scholarship, he has, at least, taken advantage of a second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce...