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COMPLAINTS have been made about the Glee Club's continually giving the same programme at its different concerts. Knowing how restricted are the privileges of this Club, we cannot censure it for that semi-indifference of which it has been accused. In order that this organization may prosper as it should, some change must be made that will awaken enthusiasm among its members and the College at large. It is well known how appreciative an audience collects at the many windows in the Yard to listen to the songs and glees of this Club. The Pierian Sodality is not even...
...Dean's Report we are told that the semi-annual period of examinations was shortened in order to check a "serious diminution of the time for instruction." That the expansion of the elective system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency...
...utterly false. On the contrary, of the two hundred and fifty men who have been examined, only two have been restricted from the use of the Gymnasium. Of course there have been instances of palpitation of the heart, but nothing more serious than that caused by overwork on the semi-annuals, or excessive exercise just previous to the examination...
...With semi-weekly meetings round the corner...
...after life. The same is true of the universities that sprang up at the end of the Middle Ages, and of the various schools of art all over the continent of Europe. The reputation of one great teacher was sufficient to draw to Bologna or Padua students from the semi-barbarous Poland or the far-distant England. The genius of Titian made Venice the resort of his many admirers and pupils, in the same way that Michelangelo was the centre of art in Florence and Rome...