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This week's Nation contains a very interesting description of the recent production of the Greek tragedy, "OEdipus" at Cambridge, England. Comparisons are drawn between the styles of the various actors there and at the performance of the same play here in Sanders Theatre a few years ago. The author closes his remarks by "I would say that the difference between the two representations of 'King OEdipus"- apart from the music of which I have already spoken-is the difference between painting and sculpture. The American play was sculpturesque and the English play was picturesque...
...gold will disappear; (c) the credit of the United States will be impaired; (d) the people, both laborers and capitalists, will suffer; (e) international trade will be carried on with great difficulty.- North American Review, June, 1885, Oct., 1886; Jevon's Currency and Finance, pp. 305 and 306; Nation...
Last Tuesday evening Prof. Cohn gave an excellent lecture in Sever 11, in which he treated in detail the causes which forced President Grevy to resign. President Grevy is a man who has rendered great service to the French nation, and is consequently highly respected. His resignation was called for only as a measure of last resort to preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment...
...expense of seniority and faithful service, yet, on the whole, the history of Harvard and of most American college faculties, is a history of the gradual advancement of tutors by a system of collegiate service, is to universities what a progressive civil service is to the State and nation...
...following from the Evening Post of December 1st, is an amusing hit at a man who is trying to "combine the useful and the beautiful," and at the same time shows what the Nation thinks about the value of having a professorship of journalism...