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...Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...
...vocal scales have been modified by the conditions of independent instrumental performance and by mechanical considerations of instrumental construction and use we have means of explaining most of the various varieties of scale at present known. The scale of seven steps, tones and semitones, to the octave, known since classic times as the Diatonic, has been the basis of nearly all European music...
About one year ago it was rumored about college that certain professors in the classical department were considering the giving of another Greek play on a scale similar to, but not so grand as that of, the Oedipus Tyrannus given now nearly eleven years ago. The results of that presentation were in all respects beneficial. A wonderful interest in Greek literature was awakened, and students were enabled to pursue their students with a better conception of the real conditions. It would be most praiseworthy to attempt, at least, the production of another classic play, and if the attempt were successful...
...study. The Bible, it is true, was a Semitic book-a book of the Jews, but later it was reshaped by general Greek influence and also reinterpreted by the advancing thought of the ages. Professor Tov said that he referred especially to the English Bible as it is a classic of the language. It is a series of pictures of ancient life-religious, political and social, and more than any other book is a vivid portraiture of ancient life. So far as ancient archaeology is illustrated by the stories of the Bible, it has attractions for the student of history...
...Institute of Technology, is to address the Finance club tonight in U. 4 on "The Theory of Distribution." President Walker is one of the most eminent, if not the most eminent, of American Economists, and his views on Distribution, which differ a good deal from those of the classic economists, have been the occasion of active discussion both in this country and in England. His address tonight is open not only to members of the Finance club, but to other persons connected with the University if introduced to the president of the club by a member...