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...indeed a satisfaction to learn that the much discussed dramatic club is at last a reality. The language societies occupy a sphere of their own; club theatricals, with one possible exception, are of a purposely trivial sort; but the Harvard Dramatic Club, open to the best talent of the entire University, presents a new field for the rising actor and dramatist. Its productions, we trust, will be of a more earnest and useful type than has yet been attempted; and will, therefore, appeal widely to the more serious side of the University. We extend our best wishes to the organizers...
...easily be computed that the average undergraduate hears during the course of a year from 250 to 750 lectures. Adding to these the number of entertainments, concerts, and theatrical performances of a more or less intellectual sort attended during the year, the figures may well approach 1000. We are certainly given abundant opportunities--we are even occasionally forced "to sit as passive buckets to be pumped into"--but on the whole this is the method of education that we have come to regard as suitable and adequate, and indeed most of us probably like...
Another amusing drawing is that of the Freshman beer night. But the best thing in the number is the drawing and the jest "Handicapped." This is the sort of thing that appears once in a long while; the modest author does not sign his sketch, but he is to be congratulated...
...United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living by manual labor of the artistic sort, into which the nervous system enters; third, a commercial layer composed of men employed in buying and distributing; and last, a class in agricultural and forestry employ. Transition from one of these layers to the others should be kept easy. Opposed to this transition are two forces: one, the operative level...
...been shown by the authorities for the western representation. Our vacations are far too short to make it worth while for many westerners to go home, and the refusal last Christmas to grant the usual time allowance added a new grievance. It is by little matters of this sort that we have obtained a reputation west of here not wholly deserved by any means-for being an inhospitable College. To prove that this is not the case, Faculty as well as undergraduates must now made every effort...