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...semi-annual meeting of the Student Volunteer Committee the reports of the members actively engaged in philanthropic work were heard. Mr. Robert H. Woods presided...
...second act opens with the people of Boston indulging in their afternoon occupation of adoring their family tree. Upon the arrival of Richarde and Hazelle, the exiles, there is a drinking song. Cavendishe and his party are now heard approaching, and in quick succession he, Portentous, the school children and Mothere Broomstycke make their appearance. Cavendishe, who has gone to find a judge, returns with Indictmente and the pirate is locked up in the judge's house, preparatory to the trial. Several songs follow, after which there is a love-making scene. Cavendishe becomes furious and orders the arest...
...committee requested to try the voices of applicants for a representative University chorus to go on a concert tour abroad, having heard the voices of over sixty, has decided that neither sufficient musical nor vocal talent has appeared to warrant the formation of such a chorus. George L. Osgood '66, W. A. Locke '69, Arthur Foote '74, George A. Burdett '81, W. R. Spalding '87, Lewis S. Thompson...
England soon realized the possibilities in the Cape and purchased it from the East India Company. Slavery was abolished, and affairs took on a better aspect. Meanwhile, the Boers who had gone to the Transvaal were oppressing the natives cruelly, and frequent complaints began to be heard. The Boers, however, soon formed an independent government and refused all allegiance to any outside power. A claim on the Orange Free State, made in 1857 by the Boers, was followed by years of internal strife and native revolts. In 1877 the government was deeply in debt and wholly without resources...
...courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin now in the average mind is not worth fighting for." We have heard the claim advanced by a modern Greek that classic Greek should be taught as a living language because modern Greek is a living continuation of it. Professor Santayana's position is somewhat similar: He regards the Roman culture and language from the point of view of the so-called Latin...