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...acting in Shakesperian plays at the Tremont Theatre, will give a reading from Shakespere, in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Mantell has acted in a number of plays by Shakespere, and is now planning the production of an English version of the "Oedipus Rex" of Sophocles. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...English--Nine courses: elementary composition; advanced composition; second advanced composition; argumentative composition; college admission requirements in English; Anglo-Saxon; Shakespeare; English literature of the eighteenth century; English literature of the nineteenth century...
Public Speaking and Reading--Four courses: voice training; course in reading; platform speaking; oral reading of English classics...
...Aladyin, the last speaker, best known as the leader of the peasant party in the last Russian Duma, has a very great influence over the entire industrial and farmers' party, and is one of the strongest revolutionary forces in Russia. Though born a peasant, he is well educated, speaking English, French, and Italian fluently. He has often visited London, and has given talks in Whitechapel, the heart of the laboring quarter. In 1905 he returned to St. Petersburg, and was asked by the peasants to run for deputy in the Duma. On receiving information that he was being watched closely...
...current number of the Monthly opens with a vigorous article by Alexander Forbes '04 on one aspect of the ever-present athletic question. The writer's main point is that, in abandoning the English attitude of "sport for sport's sake," American college athletes have not degraded but have elevated athletics, turning them to a moral discipline which study or mere play fails to afford. He is remarkably candid in admitting the moral evils in the present condition of football; but his argument fails to convince the reviewer mainly because it ignores the contrast between the widespread demoralization caused...