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Wednesday evening at 8.30 o'clock, the foreign students of the University are to gather for the first meeting of the International Council, which is to be organized on a less formal plan than in former years...
...Hessian Miracle Play" will be presented by the Dramatic Club in the Germanic Museum this evening, at 8 o'clock. This play was translated for the first time from the German by D. F. Robinson...
...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year this miracle play is being performed for the first time in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants...
...Nesting of the Sea Turtle" is but one of the pictures the University Film Foundation is presenting to the public for the first time today at Brattle Hall. Cambridge, which was taken under the most unusual conditions. The Loggarhead turtle, which is the "heroine" of this picture belongs to a deep-sea species...
Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...