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almost universal appeal. And through education alone can we hope
to elevate the popular taste.

With the demand will come production to meet it. Truly great

literature must be within the understanding of the masses—we have

a literature for the intellectuals, we have too a literature for the

masses—we need a blending of the two. Shakespeare wrote for the

man of the street far more than for the scholars of his day—and

his work makes as direct an appeal to the masses of our day and

generation as it did in the age which he wrote. Dickins is appre-

ciated by the masses almost more than by the "intellectuals," and he is

dearly loved by all children who are so fortunate as to be introduced

to him during their formative years. I t still remains for an American

to give to the world a record of our social and spiritual life so human

in its appeal that it will stand as an expression of our ideals and of

our individuality. RUTH C. FARNUM, A, '02.