Word: classics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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About one year ago it was rumored about college that certain professors in the classical department were considering the giving of another Greek play on a scale similar to, but not so grand as that of, the Oedipus Tyrannus given now nearly eleven years ago. The results of that presentation were in all respects beneficial. A wonderful interest in Greek literature was awakened, and students were enabled to pursue their students with a better conception of the real conditions. It would be most praiseworthy to attempt, at least, the production of another classic play, and if the attempt were successful...
...study. The Bible, it is true, was a Semitic book-a book of the Jews, but later it was reshaped by general Greek influence and also reinterpreted by the advancing thought of the ages. Professor Tov said that he referred especially to the English Bible as it is a classic of the language. It is a series of pictures of ancient life-religious, political and social, and more than any other book is a vivid portraiture of ancient life. So far as ancient archaeology is illustrated by the stories of the Bible, it has attractions for the student of history...
...Institute of Technology, is to address the Finance club tonight in U. 4 on "The Theory of Distribution." President Walker is one of the most eminent, if not the most eminent, of American Economists, and his views on Distribution, which differ a good deal from those of the classic economists, have been the occasion of active discussion both in this country and in England. His address tonight is open not only to members of the Finance club, but to other persons connected with the University if introduced to the president of the club by a member...
...poems before us will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece of bookmaking in binding, paper and printing. A fine engraving of Robert Browning serves as frontispiece...