Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously the ideal solution would be for the colleges to force the secondary schools to give a thorough training in Latin and Greek. But until this is done what is needed is a short cut, which would enable a man to get a good knowledge of the Classics within the confines of a single course. There is only one way in which this may be obtained; namely, by establishing a course in which the ancient authors would be given translation, thus eliminating the great time wasting factor. Such a course would naturally have as a basis the reading...
...this sort, and this can be avoided only partially when so much ground is to be covered. The difficulty can, however, be sidestepped if the tendency to turn the methods of large survey courses is overcome, and a real attempt made to give a course not so much in Classic literature as in the ideals of Classicism, in the wise tradition set by German 24. That a genuine need for something of the sort exists is certainly evident. Moreover, it is hard to see any reason why it should not be given for the Classics department is favorable...
Colonial--"Alice in Wonderland." Eva LeGallienne as actress-director, and Josephine Hutchinson as Alice head a good cast in a perfectly delightful production of Lewis Carrol's classic...
...unnecessary, as it ever was when it raised up indignant and sounding protest a year ago. It entails inconvenience and continual hurry for those who cannot do without the reading rooms, and smothers all enthusiasm for doing optional work in them, an enthusiasm which Widener's neo-classic dinginess does not breed very readily in any case. In order to make the use of the Harvard Library a civilized convenience and not a painful duty for the undergraduate, it should be kept open from nine till eleven, every day, just as the House libraries are. In the matter...
...themes. As a result, for two nights last week Conductor Hans Lange led the Philharmonic-Symphony through the dusky music of John Powell's overture "In Old Virginia" and the thumping "Bamboula Rhapsodic Dance" of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, while Tamiris and her Bahamans shattered the Stadium's classic atmosphere with such pulsing jungle rhythms as Manhattanites seldom see outside of Harlem...