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...plan has been adopted in the management of the classes at the Prospect Union. The classes have been divided into different departments namely, History and Philosophy, Economics, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages, Music, Mathematics, English, and Miscellaneous, the last including such classes as Book-keeping and Physical Training. A chairman of each department has been appointed to whom the various instructors of the department are responsible, and these chairmen are in turn responsible to the chairman of the educational committee. By this method a great advantage is gained in that no one man is responsible for the maintenance...
...term opened and it is expected that on the nineteenth of April and the two following days the Phormio of Terence will be acted in Sanders Theatre by a company of students. This particular comedy was chosen as being the most likely of all the Terentian plays to suit modern taste...
...most difficult problem is the acting and the delivery of the lines. A little more than half the play is written in verse, and this is difficult enough for a modern to deliver if he keeps strictly to the metre and the rhythm. But when the music comes in, the task becomes harder still. Music to accompany all the parts other than the senarii has been composed for the occasion by Professor F. D. Allen, and these accompaniments follow the rhythm of the Latin verses and are in the main confined to two clarinets. If the ancient usage was followed...
...after fine phrases, Maupassant endeavored throughout his works to acquire the simplest style he could. He was incomparably powerful in his short stories. In his longer works, his masterpiece is undoubtedly "Pierre et Jean," which is done with an artistic conscience. It is one of the few masterpieces of modern French literature...
...Modern Language Conference. The Models and Sources of Gulliver's Travels. Dr. Poll. Reports on Periodicals. Sever...