Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a rejuvenated "Faust" with several points of novelty. The production aims throughout to represent Goethe's poem as faithfully as Gounod's music. To this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role...
...human aspirations to good and beautiful giving, has been developed by the American Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust is discovered in his study, a scholar of middle age, a victim of nostalgia, despairing over the futility of the search after knowledge by forfeiting all life's diversions, speculating on whether after all it may not be better to assent to the aphorism, "evil, be though my good...
...generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means more than anything else. Educationally we are a nation of credit hunters and degree worshippers. Studies are considered mere payments demanded for the fun of being in school and the later privileges of college life. The student knows he can drop the 'stuff' he is studying as soon as he has 'cashed in' at studying as soon as he has 'cashed in' at the entrance gates what he is learning in school. With such a system there is no searching inquiry into educational values...
Though nothing may become the college life of a Senior like the leaving of it, it is still clear that the competition for Commencement speaking parts affords others than Phi Beta Kappa men opportunity for a last gesture. Many traditions that have no justification, even as adornment, in the swift life of a busy university may sink to a deserved death in the Lethe stream, but that one of the fine appurtenances of the student's farewell to his college should fall into innocuous desuetude is a condition to be deplored, and remedied...
...questionnaire covers quite completely all phases of a students career in College. It contains numerous questions of a sort which will enable the secretary in his first report to summarize many interesting important phases of undergraduate life. Some of these cover such topics as expenses in college, marriage of undergraduates, drinking, and opinions on courses in general. A feature of the questionnaire is the fact that it gives the individual ample opportunity to express his candid views on the more vital functions of the college, such as the system of divisional examinations at present followed, the tutorial system, the Reading...