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...last meeting of the faculty on Tuesday, March 31, the question of a Conference Committee was discussed, but no decision arrived at. Definite action will probably be taken at the next meeting...
Resolved, that a committee be appointed to consider what matters are indicated by said resolve, and that said committee also consider whether the action of the faculty has heretofore infringed on the legitimate powers of this board...
...enterprise of the Harvard Union in inviting President Eliot to address the students, under its auspices, in Sanders Theatre, is most commendable. We have heard very much favorable comment among undergraduates in regard to this action of the Union, and the opportunity of hearing our President is looked forward to with great expectancy. The duties of the executive head of this university are so manifold that he could not be expected to conduct courses in some branch of learning, as is the custom with the presidents of almost all other American colleges, but that he has not hitherto taken occasion...
...here we have a central figure too great and awe-inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is with great reluctance that I venture to question the action of a prominent and learned professor in his teaching of one of the most popular courses in the college curriculum. I would not deem it right to speak of the matter, if the action of another professor during the first half year in the same course had not been so diametrically opposed to the present method of teaching. The course in English VII. purposes to give those who elect it a view of English literature during the eighteenth century. The plan pursued during the first...