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...realism. Mr. Strauss' "Of Harvard Bondage" is written four or five times in the first week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...
...Eliot House a double quartet has been privately formed to sing sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth century music. The members meet weekly, usually on Fridays, for dinner in the House dining halls, then go to the tower room, and spend two hours part singing works of Byrd. Merley, Purcell, Bach. Palestries early polyphonic music and folksongs. It is possible that a concert may some time be given in the common room. but at present the group's only aim is to sing for its own amusement, at sight and without accompaniment whenever possible...
...current New England Quarterly, Professor E. K. Rand has undertaken to investigate and annotate Harvard's earliest commencement exercises. He has entitled his article, "Liberal Education in Seventeenth-Century Harvard," utilizing this apparent anachronism as a graceful method of introducing the vir liberalis and the trivium-quadrivium. The burden of Professor Rand's writing is to outline the development of those courses which President Dunster classed as "Technologicae," a term derived from the Greek technai and meaning, according to Professor Rand, the "arts as a whole." What would otherwise have been a pedantic display of mossy notes becomes, under Professor...
...percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding in the diet should be noted. For more than 200 years the staple food here, this pudding is now remembered only in the name of the largest and second oldest club (1790). It probably needed no doctoring to make it disagreeable...
...French 6 fails to hit the mark by a considerable distance. By this statement it is not intended to signify that the subjects are not covered properly in Professor Wright's lectures; there is no question that purely as a preparation for divisional exams this course on the seventeenth century is amply sufficient. However, nodding heads over many desks indicate that a number of students are far from thrilled by the words of the lecturer, but rather are lulled to sleep...