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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...account of the demand for lockers at the Newell Boat Club, the management asks those men holding lockers there, but not intending to use them, to call at the Athletic office or leave word at the Newell to that effect, so their lockers may be used for others...
...poetry of the number is not note-worthy, with the one distinct exception of "Tristan in Brittany," by Lauriston Ward, which has the beauty of word and phrase, of music and of imagery, that marks true poetry...
...showed careful preparation, though there were frequent instances of evidence weakly arranged. There was a commendable absence of the customary unsupported assertions, but the form of presentation was crude in nearly every instance. The speaking was too rapid and the enunciation so careless that in some instances the last word of every sentence was lost...
...years his favorite personages have been peasants; he loves them because they are simple as the domestic animals which live with them. In a word he loves those who are at the bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...
...conclusion M. Le Roux said that the Anglo-Saxons, when judging manifestations of Latin genius, must as much hesitate to pronounce the word cynicism as the Latin peoples to pronounce the word hypocrisy, when they judge the scruples of their neighbors. It is the privilege of culture to replace these prejudices which establish a barrier between races, by an intellectual superiority enabling them to appreciate the variety of the manifestations of thought and feeling throughout the world...