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...cannot make a comparison between the modern and Greek theatre. The Greeks went to the theatre in the morning and stayed all day. The theatre was only open for three days in the spring, on the occasion of the Dionysias festival. It was a religious duty for the people to attend at this time, as it was a period of utter abandonment to pleasure...
...especial interest, "Le Buddhisme en Occident" by Em. Burnouf, and De I'Etude et de I'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes by Panl Berry. The latter article is one of especial interest to members of such a university as Harvard, in which so much attention is paid to modern languages. The number as a whole is very bright and contains several interesting stories as well as two or three bright bits of verse...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...
...University of Toronto has a modern language club, of which Sir Daniel Wilson, president of the university, is president...
George S. Morris, the well-known professor of philosophy at University of Michigan, died at Ann Arbor, Michigan, last Sunday. He graduated at Dartmouth in '61, and was a tutor there in '63-'64. Later he studied in Germany. In 1870 he was appointed a professor of modern languages and literature in the University of Michigan. He was appointed lecturer in ethics, history and philosophy in Johns Hopkins University in 1878, and professor of philosophy in the University of Michigan...