| Show THE TRAGIC IDEAL Prof Clark Begins His Series of Lccturos at Barratt Hall I Prof Clark of tho University of Chicago Chi-cago gave the first in a series of six lectures lec-tures at Burnttt hal yesterday afternoon His uubject was Tho Tragic Ideal and for moro limit two hour he held the closest attention of an audience which entirely i en-tirely filled the lower liner of the audllo ilrnn Prof Clark In 1 a forceful and pleasIng pleas-Ing speaker smtl made a most favorable impression upon hIs audience lu his uton Prof Clark mudn a most earnest plea to educators and parents to Instil within tho minds of the young a Imo of tho deeper things in literature and lrt Ho saId that mini Is by l nature au optimist and naturally shrinks from the tragic In life that he Is too prone to wish things to come out right both In story and In theatricals Too many lie said < read or po to the theaters to pass away fi Idle hour to get away from thinking and after a while only the lurid and exciting ex-citing plays or lurid and exciting novels appeal to thom and they lose altogether tho powor to digest tho deeper tragedies the dooDcr literature l A puro tragedy argued Prof Clark Is I not the mero portrayal of the dark and bloody and pathetic side of life but the presentation of Ideal personalities In tho greatest crises of their lives and the con tcmptatlou of thc c tragedies arouses In readers the highest and best lu their natures na-tures In other words In every tragedy there lies a spiritual blcfmlmr If the mind of the reader can but grasp It Tho tragedies of Goothu or Homer of Dante 01 Slmkosicar were referred to as the hlxhcnt examples of art not bc ciuse their stories turned out right but because they turned out true to life His reference to the scene between Faust and ATarnucrlle where Marguerite chooses to accept death In preference to a life of happiness with Faust was most beautiful and brought out with telling effect the lesson of the lecture An t audience much larger than the ono which greeted Prof Clark In the nftar noon was present last evening and listened lis-tened with deen IntO gt to the dramatic recital of Pisola and FraucvsoaJ l Phis afternoon Lt 1 oclock Prof Clark will lecture again his wU subject to be Mac beth A Tragedy of the Will In tho evening he will give an Interpretative reading of King Lear Both will be given at Barrail hal |
