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...these troubled days the production of one of the first "war plays" ever written, the "Trojan Women" of Euripides, is an especially timely one. Mr. Granville Barker, in his presentation of the great Euripidean drama, held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon, achieved a remarkable success. As Professor Gilbert Murray, the translator of the original text, says: "judged by common standards the 'Trojan Women' is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play," but it must be admitted that as a dramatic spectacle it is an impressive production. What little plot there is, is soon lost sight...
Altogether this is a good specimen of the Monthly; not astonishing in any way, but well up to the high standard of the paper. There is no contribution that is not well written, no contribution that makes one feel that the editors were short of material and had to fill up somehow. It is frankly undergraduate, frankly literary, devoid of pretensiousness and and affectation, entirely normal and sane. Undergraduate publications are apt to be either trivial and careless or else over serious, too much impressed with their splendid mission. Both these pitfalls the Monthly successfully avoids...
When the class of '76 was in its Sophomore year, a volume of short stories, written by members of Professor A. S. Hill's course in composition made its appearance under the title "Sophomore Stories." Professor Hill tried to get the book from the University Library one day and found it in the Archeology Department...
...character of the plays, Mr. Rains said, "One of the most striking features of the plays is is that, though twenty-three centries old, they are essentially modern in their character--a fact brought out by "Trojan Women" which has been called the strongest plea against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian War. It shows that Euripides...
...Ricardo Prize Scholarship in economics for the year 1915-16 has been awarded to William Burke Belknap 2G. (Yale '08), of Louisville, Kentucky, on recommendation of the Department of Economics. The award is based on a competitive examination consisting of an essay written on an assigned subject without any previous preparation. The subject of Belknap's essay, which was chosen from a list of twenty offered, was "The Economies of Combination." The scholarship is one of $350, and the incumbent is expected to carry on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics...