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President Elliot considers the changes entirely advisable. He thinks that routine work is too characteristic of the present grammar-school system due to the prescribed courses almost entirely, rather than to any fault of the teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with...
...into an intricate maze of short phrases worked to a climax and ending, then, quietly, in a soft passage. The second movement is odd in every way, even in its name, "Valse Melancholique," itself a seeming contradiction. The waltz time is sustained but the music is rather funereal than bright. The third movement, the exact opposite of the second, is a "scherzo." There is no regular theme, but an entanglement of a lot of minor ideas which produce no impression but that of confusion. The final movement, a theme with variations, is a technical work of little interest...
...Social Stages" are two sketches, bright, natural and vivacious. Two pictures are given us, - of the enthusiastic, ideal-loving, lero-worshipping youth of twenty-one, and his ideas upon things in general - and of this same being become a man of twenty-five, cynical, fearlessly and honestly mundane and selfish, in theory and in practice, - who prefers his own real advantage to deference to a sentimentality that seems to him absurd...
...freshman Glee Club was held last night, in Roberts Hall. The number of candidates was large, especially so on the 1st bass part. On the whole the material was above the average of freshman clubs, and under Mr. Thayer's supervision, the prospects for a good club are very bright. There were some excellent voices in all the parts, and in the second bass, there were two or three exceptionally good ones...
...business-like manner by the officers of the clubs, and now, at this early stage, they are not only in working condition, but arrangements for the trip are nearly completed, and dates for other concerts are being made. The Glee Club especially is to be congratulated on its bright prospects. Few clubs have been started with such a number of good voices; the first tenor part is especially strong, a matter of the greatest importance. The Club is under the supervision of Mr. Thayer, whose services proved so valuable last year. Senor Romero will drill the Mandolin Club during...