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Next week's calendar is good reading. The Chapel is to be opened once more, and Mr. Studd will speak Sunday evening on "The Recent Religious Revival in the English and Scotch Universities." Monday evening comes Prof. Briggs' Chaucer reading and the Scientific Seminary. But Tuesday will be the great day of the week, with the lecture by Mr. Charles F. Adams on railroading. That the capabilities of Sever 11 will be taxed to the utmost is not to be doubted. So would the capabilities of Sanders for that matter. We have given up asking why these lectures are given...
...Furnival speaks as follows on Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor...
...Hungarian dances by Brahm proved to be the most popular number on the programme, in response to the enthusiastic applause, the second was repeated,-a thing, by the way, which we do not remember to have happened in Cambridge since the Symphony Orchestra was established. The Mendelssohn Symphony,-the "Scotch" was on the whole very well played; but in the third movement, the Scherzo, there was noticeable a tendency to hurry, and to get a way from the conductor's beat, which marred the light and airy brauty of the thing, by causing a slight lack of clearness...
...Sargent spoke of the progress that the Germans, French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order...
Prof. John Nichol contributes to the current Fortnightly a readable paper on "Scotch Universities, their friends and their foes...