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...reached a perilous stage in this habit, may be allowed to register here his mild protest, and to express the hope that writers at Harvard, if only for the sake of a change, may turn their attention to imitating the clarity of the Victorian age or even of the eighteenth century...
...stock company. But when these discordant elements are as few and far between as they are in the Copley Player's presentation of Sheridan's "School for Scandal" it were almost blasphemous to mention them. We cannot but feel, however, that the playing of Paderewski's Minuet in an eighteenth century comedy is somewhat incongruous. A less well known minuet might well have been chosen, and while it might post date Paderewski's, no one would be the wiser...
Other important acquisitions in the Department are three Indian portrait miniatures of the Mughal School of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the gift of Mr. Denman W. Ross...
...other collection is made up of early eighteenth century school books, among which is the famous New England primer, twentieth century copies of which may be obtained at the desk for fifty cents. Several specimens of the old-fashioned Horn-Book are also on view. These are wooden boards to which alphabets, prayers, or other reading matter is fixed, and over which a piece of glass is placed to protect the printing...
...unable to give his course on Continental Europe; 1871-1914, and his lectures in History 1. Professor R. H. Lord '06 will be away for the second half year and will be forced to omit his courses on the "History of France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" and on an "Introduction to the Sources of Modern European History...