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...music to Sophocles "$CEdipus at Colonus" will be given at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, May 2d, with a male chorus of nearly two hundred voices, and the full German orchestra. George Riddle, of Cambridge, Mass. who has made so marked a success in representations of this description, says Progress, will assist...
...days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress of the nine, we may hope to see gratifying results by that time. The tennis and bicycle seasons have fairly opened. The boat-house, Holmes and Jarvis will now be frequented daily by spectators and athletes. Jarvis is rapidly being put in condition for the ball season and for the spring...
...York, on the "Idea of the American College," contains many valuable suggestions. President Gilman said: "The American college is an admirable place for the training of men. There are now three important factors at work in our colleges - increase of wealth, growth of modern sciences and the progress of religious freedom." This growth of modern science is shown, for instance, at Harvard by the fact that the needs of the department of Physics have increased so much as to be the cause of the erection of a new Physical Laboratory...
...need of individual attention and criticism - to the whole college, satisfactory results can hardly be looked for. Class instruction may be all very well for beginners, in serving to give them an idea of fundamental rules and starting them in the right direction. But when men have made any progress at all, what they need is individual instruction and a chance to rehearse as often as possible before one who is capable of pointing out to them their failings and suggesting proper methods. This is especially true of men who are rehearsing for competitive speaking and need drill upon...
Besides these, each number contains articles on rowing and on foot-ball. In these is noted the progress made by the crew or team in the past week. The first thing that strikes the reviewer is the great merit of the articles and editorials. Is it to be inferred from this that the English student requires a higher order of literature from his college paper than that which is demanded by his American brother-student? The facts seem to justify this assumption. Of course it must be taken into consideration that a part of this paper is written by graduates...