Word: views
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...musical critic of the New York Tribune and by Mr. Francis Rogers '91, chorister of the Harvard Club of New York City. Both express the opinion that as an authority on art the Musical Review has little value. The majority of articles are contributed by undergraduates, and the views supported are the product of minds inexperienced and without breadth. A student cannot have developed any real power of discernment in music; hence his opinion can have but little weight. Music is, according to the point of view, a fine art or a science. To discuss it from any angle, however...
...Palmer's letter in the CRIMSON of March 17 is interesting but subject to dispute. His scientific division of the ways in which classics should be taught appears somewhat obscure and doubtful. Why may not a student follow more than one point of view in reading an author if that author deserves such a consideration? When a man climbs a mountain, whether he is a botanist, a geologist, or a mere climber, he must have one look at the vegetation, another at the ground, and another at the vistas about him. If he fails to appreciate any of these three...
...dens of Boylston Hall,--the demon of irreligion. But what Mr. Wright gives us is a colorful web of reminiscence and meditation. He pleads for a creed of spiritual temperance, of purity and discipline, for the sake of the aesthetic satisfaction to be derived from such a view. This he calls the pagan morality, and such it is if Francis Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante...
...Mitchell's doubt, hampered by the defects of an editor's point of view, weighed down with the responsibilities of circulation and making up his issues, is probably justified. He concludes by asking, "To put things plainly: don't we like a boxing match better than Lowes-Dickinson?" This question is as bad as the uneasy choice which Mr. McCombs offered us between militarism and pacifism. Some of us like good boxing matches and find it not inconsistent with a fondness for stimulating lectures or reading. Compared with most professional boxing-matches, the meet at the Union a short time...
Tacitus illustrates probably better than any other author the various view-points of classical study. His Latinity has certain stylistic features worthy of linguistic study; as literature his writings have been included in compilations of World's Best Literature; and as a source of historical facts he ranks among the foremost. But when we study Tacitus, let us agree on one viewpoint, and accomplish somewhat. R. F. PALMER...