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...invite all members of the University to con tribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed...
...less praise con be given to the Pierian Sodality, for they played in better fashion than usual. The selections were good, executed with good phrasing, and at no time an undue prominence of any instrument. The brass, which has hitherto been a weak feature of the orchestra, was never unpleasantly forced. The selections from "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Lohengrin" were nearly faultlessly played, but there was a little unsteadiness in the Prelude to King Manfred...
There will be an hour examination in Latin Con Wednesday...
...Browning's career is, of course, chiefly of his litereary one, although many popular mistakes in fact are corrected, and the general atmosphere of his youthful days presented. Criticism. or rather a critical form of writing, is always Mr. Gosse's, and here as everywhere, yet everything is done con amore, and we cannot help feeling that if there were spots in the sun that has so lately set, Mr. Gosse was not the man to see them, or, at least not to let us know that...
...best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while the Jews were there in exile in the sixth century B. C., are particularly helpful, because they show the influences under which the Jewish con contemporaries of the prophets were living. These influences, polytheism excepted, were certainly far better than one could have supposed before the reading in recent years of the contract tablets...