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...Modern Language Conference. Paper: The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay. Mr. H. A. Eaton. Warren House, 2d floor, 8 p. m. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...first performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...possess, but he sets his works forth in a way that have an undeniable charm and grace. It was Cyrano's idea, in "Le Pedant Joue," to make his audiences laugh, and he has succeeded admirably. The play is similar to, but on a much higher plane than the modern vaudeville...
...meeting of the Division of Modern Languages held last Thursday, it was voted to ask the Corporation to invite the Modern Language Association of America to meet in Cambridge during the Christmas recess of 1901-1902. The Conference this year will be held December 27, 28, and 29 in New York...
...that the whole question of electives in admission requirements shook itself down to the practical one of "'points,' and combinations of 'points'," which finally produced the system about to go into force. Professor Emerson then discusses most interestingly, in the real body of the article, the ancient and modern language question, the possibility of omitting Greek, and the order in which the languages are at present taught in the schools...