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Students who have taken Harmony, and wish to elect Musical Analysis of Modern Instrumental Music as a separate half course (one hour) are requested to meet Prof. Paine before June 10th...
...just been held "in spite of all opposition from parents, guardians and school-masters," at Albi, a town near Toulouse. The number of delegates who were assembled was twenty, and after two days' deliberations they decided on suggesting to the minister of public instruction the substitution of two modern languages for the Latin and Greek hitherto included in the Lycee curriculum, the appointment of a committee of scholars to mediate with the masters, improvement of the food, suppression of the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by the concierges of supplying small luxuries at exorbitant prices, and, finally, the amnesty of some scholars...
President White brought on his return from the Berlin Mission renewed vigor and life to all departments, as well as his valuable services as Professor of Modern History...
...recent editorial in one of our bi-weeklies it is attempted to show that the German instruction suffers in no respect when compared with that furnished in the French course. We are far from assenting to this, as we have frequently asserted that French is the best taught modern language that the curriculum offers. Can one find in the German electives the carefully graded courses corresponding to French 1, 2, 3 and 4? or does one hear in all the German courses a pronunciation equally good as that employed in all the French courses? Both of these questions...
...department of Modern Languages, contrary to the general impression, the work will be as comprehensive, the instruction as efficient, if not more so, than this year. French V. will pass under the supervision of Prof. Bocher, and an authority says it will be a different course than it has ever been before; no account will be made of the matter read; the examination will be, not on the substance of the books read, but extracts from different authors will be given to test the student's facility in reading French. Mr. Sheldon has charge of Italian I. and II.; Prof...