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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cyrano de Bergerac will be relished by all who have been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history could not hitherto be accurately determined. In the light of the present essay, the real Cyrano turns out to have been a brawler and a bully, full of the extravagance of the early free thinkers. "Not at all the man who after overcoming a hundred assassins could turn about and conquer...
...extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection...
...sense, it is connected with Class Day; but it is not a Class Day affair, and does not come on Class Day. Further, and much more important, the management of Class Day proper is ample work for any committee of three. Indeed, this fact has been so well recognized hitherto, that the Class Day Committees have promptly delegated the actual management of the promenade to a subordinate committee...
...Hadley and Professor Sumner made addresses on the history and advantages of college debating. Among the objects of the Yale Debating Association is the bringing about of a series of debates between various college debating organizations in order to afford opportunities for public speaking, which have heretofore been lacking. Hitherto the various debating organizations have been more or less in conflict, but, under the new system, they will all work together with the Yale Union as the central organization of the University. At the meetings of the union, parliamentary law is strictly observed and a careful record of each meeting...
Professor White's course on the History of the Greek Drama which was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON is such as has long been needed and will be highly appreciated. The reading for it may be done in the original or in versions. Hitherto only discouragement has met those who have desired a passing acquaintance with the human aspect of Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead...