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Prof Paine's second historical concert was given last night, in Sever 11. He had the assistance of Miss Edmunds, soprano, and Miss Eames, contralto. The special subject was the early opera of the Italian, French, and English schools. In the development of the contrapuntal church styles in the 16th century, melody had been entirely lost sight of. solo music had also been unknown; and in the first beginning of the opera, even the chief parts were taken by choruses of five or six voices. For two centuries, a feeling for lyric music had been growing: Ben Jonson, and Shakespeare...
...discipline for sixty years-say from 1826, when the study of Hebrew, from being prescribed, became optional. This seems already necessary in order to justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks for absence were first given up at lectures, then at chapel, and finally the student was left free to select the studies that he would pursue, and the order in which he would pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine...
...annual college lottery draws near. The rules and regulations, governing this distribution of the few prizes, and the many blanks, have been received by each student, with the Bursar's periodic compliments. Several changes are noticed in the method of assigning college rooms. Hereafter, Holworthy is to become a special paradise of upper class men. No '89 man can have even the satisfaction of imagining that he has a small chance of becoming an inmate of those inviting walls. Sub-freshmen and all under-graduates, this year, will make their applications at the same time. By this change...
...THURSDAY.Board of Overseers. Special meeting at No. 70 Water St., Boston...
...devolves upon the library attendants to attach shelf numbers to assist in finding the books, there is a considerable expediture of time on the library's part in aid of that institution. The over-night use by the 'Annex' of books which have been reserved for the special use of our own students is confined to such titles as, at the close of the day, have not been required to supply the latter. That their discrimination is necessary, appears from the fact that five-eighths of all books drawn by the Annex are from the 'reserved' shelves...