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...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...
...varsity ball nine will be followed this year with great interest. The situation which the captain and coaches must face is a trying one. In the last two years there has been plenty of good material on hand,- players with long experience and established reputation. The chief problem to be solved then was to dispose of these men in the most advantageous way and drill them in working together. At the present time the problem is much more complex. Not only must the material be formed into a well-working nine, but the material itself is yet to be produced...
...floor plan, and the architect generally has this formed and finished before he has more than a vague idea of what the elevation is to be. This plan, then, being of the first importance, should be studied in a practical way to meet the ends of the problem in hand. The first thing to be considered is the disposition of the rooms on this main floor, and of hardly less importance is the question of circulation, or the arrangement of halls and corridors so that they may connect the various rooms in the simplest and most convenient manner...
...first time in the history of debates at Harvard, a nominal admission fee of 25 cents will be charged. This is in order to have room for all who really care to hear the debate, besides being the best solution of the problem of expenses. It is in no sense a money making scheme. Tickets will go on sale tonight at six o'clock at Thurston's. Every seat will sell for 25 cents. There will be no general admission. Each seat will have its ticket, and seats will be reserved until after the debate begins. Anybody, whether...
...Benjamin Trueblood, of the Friend's Meeting House of Boston, addressed the Christian Association last evening. He described a high ideal of Christian life in our colleges, and discussed the problem of attaining this ideal...