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There are many tributes to his wit, which certain persons trace to his French blood. Edward Lucas White, classicist and novelist, says: . "I re-call one of Professor Gildersleeve's lectures on The Uses of the Greek Dative. I took notes on the lecture with my right hand while with my left hand I wiped away the tears that ran down my cheeks, so amusing did Professor Gildersleeve make that lecture." At a recent dinner in his honor, when he was told that his name was a household word around the globe, he replied with characteristic modesty...
Bacon was described as " an embodied conscience." A classicist, who has made the " the classic idiom " his own, he designs with scrupulous care. The Lincoln Memorial is the culmination...
...Voice), Bassani Furibondo, Handel Miss Braslau. Salamaleikum, (Solo by C. D. Whidden '23.) Cornelius I Hear a Harp, Brahms Song from Ossian's Fingal, Brahms Glee Club. Chant de Guerre, (Solo by J. F. Lautner ocC.) Schmitt Vocalise (Song without words, the Cry of Russia), Rachmaninoff The Classicist The Orphan On the Dnieper Berceuse The Storm, Moussorgsky Miss Braslau. Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph, Morley The Broken Melody, Sibelius Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, Handel Glee Club...
...LaFarge attacks, Mr. Jayne defends, the new form. Mr. Jayne's essay is very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather...
...gained which could properly be given to the study of the works as literature and to and estimate of the real character of the classics. Such courses would not only be valuable to the general student, but would also be useful in supplementing the training of the specialized classicist. The classical department must always offer a certain amount of philological work for those who are to become professional scholars; but there will always be a much larger number of general students whose claims are equally urgent...