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Fanti will be presented to the museum with which Prof. Kuno Francke, curator who is now in Europe will be able to obtain another valuable piece...
...necessary and important that the English stage from 1800-1870 receive a thorough practical study in protest against the usual manner of disposing of nineteenth century drama, and this Prof. Watson has excellently accomplished in his sequel (actually of earlier composition) and companion volume to Prof. Thaler's "Shakespeare to Sheridan." Prof. Thaler's book is essentially one of information regarding the theatre itself--of facts concerning playwrights, players, managers, playhouses--rather than a consideration of the dramatic literature, which has been adequately covered for his period by Prof. Bernbaum, Prof. Nicoll, and others, in special histories. Prof. Watson...
...from the Old Drama to the New, with its soliloquies, asides, mingling of individual and type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated...
...Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison, of Harvard's history department has been writing perspective impressions of Harvard for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after three years (1922-25) as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. An impression recently published beneath the terse statement which U. S. graduates and undergraduates instantly discerned a deep vein of truth, was to the effect that at Oxford college studies are called "reading" while in the U. S. reading is called "work." "If any material device could help matters it would be the abolition of roommates. At Oxford, only Americans and foreigners...
...concert at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "Masaniello" Auber Waltz of the Flowers Tchalkovsky Fantasic, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Songs by Wellesley College Choir Scenes Pittoresques Massenet a. Air de Ballet b. Fete Boheme The Swan Saint-Saens Violoncello Solo: Jacobus Langendgen Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohn a. Organ Solo: Finale Lemmens Prof. H. C. Macdougall b. Choir: Wellesley Medley Overture to "The Flying Durtchman" Wagner Indian Lament Dvoraki-Krellsler Pomp and Circumstance Elgar