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...learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs, not for breeding and selling, nor for hunting or house-watching, but for the idle pleasure which the ownership affords, know the pet, not as from Hell...
Plato says that education is the turning of the entire soul to the good. This conception seems to lead us into the perilous territory of edification, where even angels should fear to tread. William James is on much safer ground when he says that an educated person is one who can tell a good man when he sees him. Education helps character to the extent that it builds up a critical faculty which can see the good from the bad. * * * (The educated man) is intellectually honest; he is conscious of what he has and of what...
...first performance of this play in Boston, twenty years before, "The college showed very tangible disapproval." Vegetables were probably the order of the day. H. D. C. decided to revamp the production. Under satirical treatment, "Brown of Harvard" responded nobly. With due melodrama the hero thwarted those who would tread on his good name and arrived in the nick of time to lead his crew to victory over Oxford. Harvard cheered loud and lustily, and seemed fully to catch the spirit of the thing...
...injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures of Richard Dix. Typical shot: Guy Kibbee, drunk and oratorical, inducing the patrons of a saloon to deposit their money instead of squandering it for liquor...
...part the new policy of the Advocate, as evidenced by its first issue, already attempts to cover this ground. The Advocate, however, fills other functions which make it unfitted to be a controversial magazine, and if the editors of the Critic make the proper discriminations they need tread no more on the toes of the Mother than on those of the Atlantic Monthly. It is an organ of controversy that the Critic will best fit into Harvard life...