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Tickets for the last concert to be given this year by the University glee, mandolin, and banjo clubs will be sold to Seniors at 75 and 50 cents at the special sale of Class Day tickets. No Senior will be allowed more than four tickets at the reduced rate. The date of the public sale of tickets, which will cost $1 or 75 cents each, will be announced later...
...points. The condition of the University team should be much improved by the end of next week and the men should be able to make a better showing than was made in the dual meet with Yale last Saturday. The team should win fourth place at any rate and will probably press Michigan and Yale closely. The large number of men who have entered from the smaller colleges will win several points, which should materially affect the results, and for that reason it is difficult to make an accurate prediction
That some changes will be made in the near future is a certainty. There are several first-rate men on the University rowing squad that have not yet been tried in the first boat, and these changes would have been made before, had it not been necessary to select eight men and train them to row together before the contest with Columbia...
...great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism may reveal a hundred joints in the construction...
...subject of the Iliad is perhaps considered second rate, as Achilles is not a very sympathetic hero; and were it not for his misery and repentance at the end, most readers would dislike him because of his arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready...