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...farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever. Let me say here that I rejoice...
Cornell has offered a professorship of modern English to Charley Dudley Warner...
Instruction is offered by the Correspondence University, of Ithaca, N. Y., in ancient and modern languages, mathematics, history, physiology, zoology, anatomy, agriculture, botany, civil-engineering, and drawing...
...programme that could lay claim to any musical form or organism. Its absolute purity of style and sentiment made it the more interesting as the rest of the programme was a mere jumble of tunes. The Svendsen symphony in B is an example of what a certain class of modern symphony writers will compose and label with the name of Symphony. A name to which they can only lay claim thorough their customary division into slow and fast movements. In this symphony, while the fast movements are mere tunes in the jig style, the slow movements are mere rhythmical statements...
...conclusion we must repeat our complaint which seems to remain unheeded by Mr. Henschel that the programmes are not satisfactory as regards the solidity of the main selection. We have had enough experiment of modern symphonies, and would like to hear a good rendering of a Beethoven symphony before the end of this short series...