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...knowing any thing about the song, as there will be plenty of opportunities between now and Friday for learning. It takes but a short time and but little trouble to step into Boylston one or two evenings during the week and getting a fair acquaintance with the song, whose air is not at all difficult to catch. We hope that the members of '82 will take enough interest in their class day exercises to make the singing of the class song a perfect success, which under the altered circumstances, is less difficult to accomplish than ever before...
...financial success." While we sincerely wish the University of Michigan the greatest possible success in their praiseworthy efforts, we are very skeptical as to whether they can hope for great financial gain to be derived from the production of a Latin play in a very small provincial town whose population consists almost entirely of students and tradesmen...
...students of Michigan University intend during the coming commencement week to produce a play entirely in French. The costumes, scenery, music, &c., will be in exact conformity to customs of the time of Racine, whose only comedy, "Les Plaideurs," has been chosen for the representation. The cast of characters will consist of both gentlemen and lady students who have been carefully prepared for the occasion by Prof. De Pont of the university. The play will be mounted in fine style in the Ann Arbor Opera House on June 26. This is the first evening in commencement, and many alumni...
...rules governing the instructors of the university is that no examination shall extend beyond three hours. The corporation wisely foresaw that, if no such restriction were enacted, students would be constantly treated with the utmost inconsideration by some professors whose sole aim in examinations is not to discover what the student may know, but to impress on him how absolutely little knowledge of the subject he possesses. The more he succeeds in convincing the student that he is groping in absolute ignorance, the more satisfaction does he seem to take unto himself. This rule the authorities have enacted...
...constantly increasing necessity of a practical knowledge of modern languages is now fully appreciated by the authorities of Columbia College. Ability to deal in person with the people of foreign tongues has become even a requirement for success in a country so cosmopolitan as the United States, whose financial markets, whose learned professions, and whose general society is influenced and even controlled by an ever-enlarging element of foreigners. A recent writer in the New York Post says in regard to some salutary changes in the curriculum of modern languages at Columbia...