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Professor G. P. Baker '87 spoke on the college actor and his relation to the professional stage at the open meeting of the Dramatic Club yesterday afternoon. In his talk he emphasized the need of plasticity in the college actor, pointing out the tendency of amateur actors to simply learn the lines of the author, and neglecting to correctly impersonate the character. The college actor should remember that he is merely a color in a pattern, a part of a "stock company", not a star of the evening. Professor baker stated that the only way to build up a role...
...Pichel '14 spoke of his experience as an actor and stage manager since leaving College. This is the first of a series of open meetings to be given by the Dramatic Club during the rest of the year, at which prominent persons connected with the drama will speak...
Professor J. A. Walz, of the German Department, spoke last evening on "The Moral Forces of Modern Germany." Professor Walz introduced his subject by a brief summary of the growth of German national spirit from the sixteenth century, emphasizing the important part played by Prussia in the unifying of what once was a mass of over three hundred principalities. The fundamental principles of German political philosophy, he said, are authority, liberty, and duty. These ideas run through all the forms of German public activity, and it is for their sake that the Teutonic allies are now fighting. Some time...
Professor Tagdis Chandra Bose, of the University of Calcutta spoke on "The Control of Nervours Impulse in Plant and Animal", yesterday afternoon. After a preliminary talk in which he discussed the question of the possible control of the nervous system in animals and plants, Mr. Bose told of his use of the "resonant recorder" and showed diagrams illustrating his experiments. "We know", he said, "that a plant experiences internal changes, but the only way we have of studying these changes is to make the plant give some kind of answer to a shock...
...until there has been a demonstration of the futility of aggressive war as a means of national advancement will the prevalent system of militarism come to an end, is the opinion of Mr. David Jayne Hill, former ambassador to Germany, who spoke on "Phases of International Relations", in the Union last night...