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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yeats has made many experiments at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, with imaginative settings for poetic plays. In two weeks he is returning to Ireland to join Gordon Craig, son of Ellen Terry, and himself an artist and scene-designer of note, in some practical experiments with a new sort of scenery and new lighting effects that Mr. Craig has lately invented and which he expects will revolutionize the staging of poetic dramas. Mr. Yeats will describe these new methods for obtaining more harmonious and beautiful settings and will discuss realism, impressionism, and symbolism in scenery...
...Note.-Reprinted from the June number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...interest to note last the views expressed in your editorial are also shared by the Faculty. Semitic 4, hitherto known as a course on the "History of Israel, Political and Social," is henceforth to be entitled "The Old Testament, With Special Reference to the History and the Literature of Israel." In the Semitic descriptive pamphlet recently issued this course is described thus...
...Germanic Museum Association, we had collected by the end of 1909 about $37,000; but only the $250,000 given since then by Mr. Busch has brought within sight the realization of the building to which we had so long been looking forward. It is gratifying to note that the man who thus links his name with those of the great benefactors of Harvard University is a German by birth, and that the motive of his generous action has been the wish to establish at the oldest American university an institution which shall bring to view the best that German...
...tutor's seminar is doubtless better than no preparatory review at all. Yet a review of any real value to a man is something that he can do best for himself. Just as the act of note-taking in the first instance seems to impress the subject matter of a lecture upon the memory, so the process of reviewing and boiling down notes makes the reviewer at home with the entire field before him. The result is directly proportionate to the effort. The man who leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential...