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Esperanto, the best known of the artificial languages, was invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian. The Esperanto grammar can be learned in less than half an hour, and the vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations...
President Eliot, the last speaker, said that the great ethical teaching of Universities is individual freedom. During the last 15 or 20 years this has been lost sight of, owing to the great emphasis which has been laid on the development of force...
...feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared. At the same time, expenses of all kinds are going steadily up, and there is no end to them in sight. Some of these expenses I have enumerated in a previous letter. It also became necessary to adopt some settled policy in regard to the minor sports, as their number was increasing (three new ones have come into existence this year) and experience has shown that the money assistance granted to them...
Preliminary trials for the parts will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Room 6 of the Union. Candidates will be retained according to their ability in reading selected sight passages from the play. Provisional parts will be assigned for the final trials, which will be held early next autumn...
LECTURES ON LATIN TEACHING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. VI. "Reading at Sight," Professor C. P. Parker. Pierce 110, 3.30 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College, and to teachers of Latin...