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...Dialect." In this entertainment, Miss Penick will give her admirable interpretation of German, Italian, Scotch, negro, Irish, Hoosier and child dialects. E. I. Dale 2G, who makes a specialty of Western folklore, will give a sketch of cowboy and Indian life on the frontier. Speaking from his own wide experience in the Western States, he will make his part of the program interesting...
...even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality. We get no new ideas, no new sensations, not even a shock, except perhaps in Mr. Paulding...
...concluded his talk by telling of the growth of the state-wide and nationwide co-operation. Fifty out of 70 governments in the world own their own railroads; and telegraphs, telephones, insurance and lighting systems are rapidly passing into government hands. The Socialist believes in extending such ownership until all principal industries are publicly owned and democratically managed by the municipality, the state and the nation...
...will not be easy to estimate what Professor Muensterberg, during his long and fruitful service in this country, has done for psychological studies. He was one of the most productive of scholars and besides his wide resources of knowledge and invention, he had extraordinary gifts in presenting his thoughts so that many will remember him as a teacher of unusual fascination. Many an illustration of his would take root in the mind, giving life and vividness to thought of the highest subtlety. And beneath all this was a rare personal kindliness and hospitality. No differences of judgment in matters that...
...fall and at about the present time there begins a determined and wide-spread hunt for suitable snap courses, or in other words courses that are supposed to yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit...