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...point at issue is whether or not, once this value has been accepted, experiments in conversation will further a man's appreciation of the literature and its underlying culture. If you deny this you must then assert that the French and German tables perform simply a pragmatic function, which is that of making Freshmen able to get around in Europe. In all other senses, Latin is just as much a "living" language as any other. Certainly a lover of Latin can think in Latin, just as a lover of French thinks in that language as he reads his favorite authors...
...Plymouth Theatre on Monday night was presented a curious play; a play connected by Channing Pollock out if fantasy, sentimentally, and morality. Mr. Pollock has some very definite ideas on the function of the drama and in "The House Beautiful" he displays these theories to the exclusion of dramatic unity, dramatic interest, and dramatic force...
Plans for a series of four University teas were announced yesterday by Eustis Walcott '32. The teas the first of which will be held on Friday, November 13, at Phillips Brooks House, are open to all members of the University, but each function is planned specially for a number of departments and groups having allied interests...
...until 7 o'clock, in reported to be in response to popular demand, and has the approbation of Dolmar Leighten '17, dean of the first year class, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University. The affair, the first of its kind and, if successful, a possible class function in the nature of a fall supplement to the Freshman Jubilee of the spring, is made possible by the new conditions of the first year life in the yard and Union...
...complete the personnel of the Freshman Tea Dance Committee, Borden and his associates will select ten members of the first year class to assist in the arrangements, to handle the sale of tickets, and to usher at the function...