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Because of the large number of characters in the play, 10 female and 18 male, unusual opportunity is offered to all those who like to act. The character parts are especially clever, and afford a wide range of interpretation. Undergraduates are eligible for the men's parts, while the female roles will be taken by members of Radcliffe College...
Another of his significant contributions to the improvement of precollegiate education was his work as Chairman of the "Committee of Ten" on secondary school studies. The report of this Committee (1893) prepared by president Eliot is an education classic. It immediately received wide recognition, and profoundly influenced the trend of secondary education throughout the country...
Despite the wide divergence in their demands, the radical and the reactionary desire the same thing. They insist that the teacher become a propagandist and that the college become a school for a particular theory. Time was when such schools existed and students traveled from one to the other to get a universal point of view. They were the schools of Greece and of the middle Ages. We flatter ourselves that we have advanced in many thing, among them--education. But it is beside the point to question whether this is a better or worse system. The fact remains that...
...final selections will be made on or about September 25. In many cases the quality of distinction in one or more fields of study has fully as much bearing in the selection of successful candidates as does general excellence in a wide range of subjects...
...presence tonight of Mr. Kreisler, the University is honored by a musician of world-wide distinction; and through him the University possesses an opportunity of expressing its appreciation of art, regardless of the nationality of the artist. If it is a crime to have been born in Austria-Hungary, Mr. Kreisler is undoubtedly guilty. But the vast majority of undergraduates do not believe it to be a crime. Hysteria may be regarded as inevitable, and even as pardonable, in time of war; in time of peace it usually succeeds only in making itself ridioulous...