The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08
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The 'varsities changing their chairs. 1t is high
time. When to school taught everything
1t was easiest to forget Our curriculum conprsea .e
largest possible number subjects of which the least
possible could be No doubt they designed
for good. Yet unable to conjecture what d-
ference would have made had they been intended for
harm. We unable to recall single one of them
Now, however. things are looking up oxford ior IN
stance is throwing Greek Here. generally instead
OF the mumrneries the classics there modern
tongues history of calculus. That is all very
we'll But the change is susceptible of Improvement.
Learning is fashionable Society has great CON
tempt for IT. Tha, contempt while hardly of the
which familiarity breeds the less obvious III you
believe go You will find it stupid to
be wise all alone alone will be. The more you
know the diligently will be avoided And very
naturally. When Red Badge Of Culture does not put
hostess sleep 1t makes her feel ignorant Neither
proceeding is societyfee.
No, indeed A knowledge OF history. however super
fcia will bring you Invitations dinner 1t is the
with languages. You may develop into poiysl't
and die bounder The majority of us want to see eur
names the papers The ambition is quite noble and
GAighly American acquaintance with Cicero. and
even with Carnegie. won't help you to it.
this that the change in chairs is sus-
ceptble Of improvement The better advancement and
future prospects Of the youth OF the land demand that
universities shall history and languages as
they throwing classics and calculus. and In
their stead provide What's What. And what
there but love and lucre?
little things the motor forces OF society
Beside the fashions and the charm Of mei-
medsance because it sounds so much more
cosmopolitan than title tattenothng counts No moth
ing Moreover potent and disinegrating as
radium. Then instruction regarding them is really
divertng Students who take them will not merely
learn something. they will remember it.
RICHES AND ECONOMY
To be RICH for instance, complex. 1t is very
simple educational magazine not long ago Pro-
Carnegie Professor Depew and other savans in
acated process. According Professor Carnegie
you push. Manners do not make the millionaire
Professor Depew advocated economy dollar in the
bank is worth a margin Professor Mills advised
than eight hours sleep The other fellow must
you mapping. Professor Clews recommended
We believe that he has few to sell Now
add all that and wealth. which looked complex, be-
ping-pong.
is different. To love and to be loved seems SIM
ple 1t is itself. An did say? 1t is
philosophy a theosophy a panosophy 1t is
science whereby world, flesh and the devil. the
system the what little we know
II, all that do not-are reduced to single
being.
Sometimes to two beings Occasionally to three. But
though odd. there luck in it 1t is
dangerous addition to being inconvenient You never
a spare moment and obliged to lie like thief
less exasperating Even with one carefully Sc
being hands to be pretty full When
that being is legally your very own you VIII ma 1t ad
vantageous conine your attentions to her. Anyway,
generally admitted that It is better to have loved
your to have loved at ALL
remarks OF purely ethical. Love is
not by long shot Love is vicious little chap. He
IS essentially selfish and though little biggest
statue is callous hyena is less cruel
Personally, should prefer cobra about the house
cobra you elude But not bore-with civility at
least little chap is sticking pins in
he rivals best selling noveists in the art Of boring
you stiff
observations false air OF originality which.
a hasten disclaim They have all
history support Out of mythology. and there
which Apueius of Cupid and
Psyche there single OF happily begun and
happily ending No. As pages turn and
always when they not weeping they
yawninz
LOVE POE,Mi
Why? love is not merely a philosophy.
a poem whose strophes and youth
Because OF all subjects it is the
the least understood Because 1t
the affection of else Because affections like
fashions, they will out. Because the
twenty appeals at thirty has been known to appal.
At the opera and then you may IL you n luck,
hear Cherubino ask the ladies who stand about
him what love Is The ladies make Not be-
they rude Still less because they ignorant
But because Mozart did have the
the effect that love
is the fusion of two esotsms Truth should be charming
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