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...somewhat stirring and encouraging experience to see a demonstration of the fact that there is nothing so contagious as enthusiasm. In the last three or four years, and springing from the enthusiasm and energy of one man, there has developed at Harvard an extraordinary and wide-spread interest in the drama, an interest of real value, since it has led to accomplishment. Of this interest the current Monthly is primarily an expression. It contains three essays on matters connected with contemporary drama: a criticism of Mr. W. V. Moody's "The Faith Healer," a condemnation of Mr. Hagedorn...
...Elwell is one of the leading American sculptors. His work exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, and at the Pan American, Buffalo, 1901, attracted wide public attention. He has twice been awarded a gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club, and received a silver medal from Leopold II of Belgium. He is an honorary member of the Cincinnati Art Club and of the Dickens Fellowship, and was curator for several years of the Department of Ancient and Modern Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City...
Approval of the recent modification of the elective system was expressed by President Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor J. H. Ropes '89 showed that the present wide-spread criticism of colleges in general is a distinct advantage inasmuch as it may be easily answered...
...impossible to conduct most courses without prescribed reading, and it is, furthermore, impossible for the instructor to see that the prescribed reading is done, without some mechanical test to that end. This test commonly takes the form of a short report written outside the class, and generally covering a wide field with no specific object stated...
William Vaughn Moody's the "Faith Healer" is a play which will never make a wide appeal, but the appeal will be all the deeper where it is felt. The situation is too outside our ordinary experience to be clear at once. It deals with the subtle psychic forces in our lives, the certain, but, as yet, not understood influence of character upon character...