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...tremendous scope of the Ring with its mass of detail is frightening to many a first hearer. Richard Wagner was 26 years writing it, doing first the poem of Die Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and Die Meistersinger, operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried...
Already the half-hearted efforts of the Varsity debating team to discard the practice has resulted in several trimmings at the hands of Boston University. so much the better. And now, when emphasis in debating is being shifted to the Houses and expanded in its scope, it is time that the Oxford system without decisions displace as rapidly as is convenient the present training course for sophists and shysters...
...courses, where the reading period work is closely integrated with the rest. In the first place the time devoted to the question is doubly disproportionate both to the remainder of the examination and to the amount of reading supposedly done during the reading period. The relation of the scope of the regular work in the course to the ground covered in the two week preceding the midyear period is not such as to warrant the setting aside of a whole hour from the examination to test the student's knowledge of the latter. On the other hand, even an hour...
...enters it on an equal footing with his seniors, expecting from the title in the catalogue a course designed to further a literary appreciation, of Chaucer and to teach enough of Middle English to enable the student to read the poetry with ease and enjoyment, a course similar in scope and design to Mr. Kittredge's English 2. But as the weeks go by the undergraduate finds himself floundering in a sea of Middle English grammar and philology, half of which is of no interest or value whatsoever to him, and encumbered with a mass of erudition which impedes rather...
...introduction to European philosophy, it puts too much emphasis on six great men--Plato, Aristotle, or Marcus Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools...