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...business meeting and smoker of the Canadian Club was held last Saturday evening in Roberts Hall. J. E. Eaton 3 L., president of the club, presided. The officers elected for the following year were: President, W. H. S. Kollmyer 2 L.; vice-president, E. Brebant 1 Gr.; secretary, C. Seaman 1 Gr.; treasurer, F. G. Chisholm '98. It was decided to have a banquet in Boston on the queen's birthday, May 24, as usual though at what hotel was not determined. After the business meeting a regular programme was listened to Mr. Henry Sandham, vice-president of the Boston...
Seminary of Economics. The Intercolonial Railway of Canada. Mr. C. E. Seaman. University...
Seminary of Economics. The Intercolonial Railway of Canada. Mr. C. E. Seaman. University...
...gross and very apparent, while in Terence they are far more subtle and difficult to perceive. In their comedies the scenes are usually laid in Greece, the costumes and money Grecian, but the oaths are always Roman. Plautus's experience as a trader accounts for his knowledge of a seaman's life. "Whoever wants a peck of trouble," he says, "let him get himself a wife and a boat; these two will be enough." Plautus concerned himself little about his relations with Greek originals. He cared only to amuse his audiences, and chose the plots which were easiest to transpose...
...first number, Wagner's Overture to the "Flying Dutchman," is based on an old legend, well-known in seafaring nations, in which the action centres about a spectral seaman, whose appearance to a ship's company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...