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...plan for obtaining honors in English, which is published elsewhere in these columns contains two points of particular significance. The division, which has been made between general and special honors does not depend upon a difference in course requirements, which are almost identical, but upon the abolition of compulsory Anglo-Saxon in the general field and upon the additional requirement in that field set forth in the statement that, "it is expected that candidates under this plan shall show evidence of especially wide rending...
...Anglo-Saxon requirement has been the besetting sin of the Honors Course in English ever since its institution: It was wholly illogical of the department to make this demand when no similar requirement for extensive knowledge of both Greek and Latin was laid down. These two languages, even to the layman, are obviously of much greater importance in the study and appreciation of English literature than is Anglo-Saxon. The new rule in effect makes Anglo-Saxon voluntary, and so removes the evil...
...Harvard Law Library has no equal in breadth of scope in the world, its only possible rival, the Congressional Library, having a less complete collection of books of Anglo-American, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, German and South American law. It is expected that the Endowment Fund Drive recently launched by Dean Roscoe Pound will permit yet more expansion and specialization within the Library...
...London, which seems to be the happy-hunting ground for Mr. Clive's play-pickers, the current Copley play had great popularity. It should have the same reception in this stronghold of Anglo-philes. Someone told Mr. Clive that there was nothing like farce for his stage, and Boston can resign itself to the fare for many a month, until the London farce market is exhausted. Fortunately, his informant was a very shrewd fellow. There is nothing like farce for the Copley...
...nearby peaks of the Whitney group bear mostly the names of geologists, explorers, and other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...