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Show Time Is indeed tho great disinfectant. disinfect-ant. This has always been understood under-stood in a material sense; but it is just coming to bo comprehended that it is true of immaterial things as well if a "thing" can be immaterial. It Is true, at any rate, of literature for we have the authority of a Yale professor and the Yale professor knows everything. every-thing. According to Prof. Knapp, of Yale, thore is no objection to immoral language when it is ancient; it is only whea it is modern that it becomes improper im-proper to read or to use in a text book. The utterance of the professor was intended in-tended to be sarcastic. It was a subtle sub-tle reproof of tho rest of the faculty for opposing the study of Balzac as . immoral. He was simply pointing to the fact that there was nothing in Bal- lac any worse than there was in the old Groek and Latin authors who were freely road and studied in the university. |