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Emphasizing the supernatural element in Shakspere's "Macbeth" as the keystone of the tragedy, Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82 last night treated the first of a series of five tragedies of Shakspere in his inimitably pleasant style before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. The series is under the auspices of the Dowse Institute. Compendious as the speech was, it included a dissertation on the general plot and characterization of the tragedy as, well as interesting sidelights acquired by the speaker's careful study...
...Eventually, perhaps, the Phi Beta Kappa Bureau can establish itself as a clearing-house for recommended tutors and students who can profit by their services. By placing its stamp of approval on properly qualified tutors and their methods, it should eventually help to eliminate much of the "boot-leg" element in professional tutoring. The Phi Beta Kappa has been regarded chiefly as an honorary organization: in becoming usefully active as well, it will justify itself in the eyes of a few who are now inclined to scoff...
...complete reorganization of the board of trustees. Whereas Antioch College formerly had trustees who were mostly clergymen of two ecclesiastical sects, the new board is made up of successful business men and manufacturers known also to have been interested in education for many years." The second distinctive element, the organization of a new kind of faculty was next discussed by the speaker. Instructors are sought who will instill in pupils interest in activity and in the problems they have to face, not by driving at them but by leading them...
Perhaps the best known characteristic of Antioch College was next discussed by President Eliot: its division into two distinct parts, the students spending half their time in study and half in paid employment. The element of half time work has wide scope and would affect very much the life and education in both our own and other countries especially as regards endowment and support of schools...
President Morgan then dealt with the theoretical element especially involving the make up of personality. He accepted the generally conceded fact that a man's character is moulded largely by his surroundings, but stressed the point that the remaining part must be developed by special conditions. "This is what we endeavor to do at Antioch", concluded Mr. Morgan, "by elements in the curriculum differing widely from those of other colleges. Liberalists make for training of intelligence almost exclusively, while technical institutions seek to develop the technical side, but what we wish to do is to devise a complete combination...