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However successful the Glee Club is, it has always to contend with one serious drawback-the need of trained voices. Men come here from the preparatory schools with very fair voices, perhaps, but with little knowledge of music and still less careful training. The result is that the Glee Club has frequently to take comparatively untrained men and work them up to the requisite standard. If a part of this labor could be done beforehand, the saving and value of it to the University Glee Club would be infinite...
...present. The Harvard faculty proposes no such radical reduction in the requirement for the degree. If it be said that the work done in the professional school does count some toward the A. B. degree,-a rather specious plea it is true, the plan is still open to serious objection. The faculty here say that the A. B. degree should represent broad, liberal training, and not the technical work of the professional schools. They have held to this conception of the meaning of the degree in their proposed change while enabling the student to complete the work required in three...
...thoughtful paper, called "Pleasure: A Heresy," appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit of enjoyment. The article is full of good-natured banter at the expense of the self-consciously cultivated persons, who demand from both literature and art, not pleasure, but some serious moral purpose. A review of Mr. Aldrich's new volume of poetry, of one or two French novels, and of Mr. Sargent's Silva of North America, with the usual comment on new books and the Contributors' Club, conclude the number...
...Boston and elsewhere there are many girls-yes, even newsboys-who are courageously helping to support their little brothers and sisters. Let this young man then to whom I am talking get a serious purpose in life, for what right has he or any other man to take everthing and give nothing in return...
...evil is a serious one; to the instructors who cause it, we appeal for a remedy...