The Courier-Review.
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Rose Horton was down from Topeka to see the Nebraska game and to attend the Chesterfield dance.
The data for the article in the World was furnished by some student. Later developments are expected in regard to him.
There will be an enthusiastic COURIFR-REVIEW meeting at the Phi Gam hall Saturday afternoon at four o'clock. Everybody come.
The Ottawa contingent went wild at the game last Saturday. We wonder how they enjoyed the medicine administered to their musical prodigies. Six to nothing, oh my!
If the library continues to be as cold as it was two or three days last week we will perhaps have our library fee returned, and the case now pending in court will be withdrawn.
Everybody will be pleased to learn that "Chappie" Stone is getting along nicely. He seems to have his nerve with him, and he is apparently in a good disposition most of the time.
The following committee has been appointed by the "Non Ringsters" to select a suitable badge or pin for the University: Prof. Cowan, R.K.Moody, Spellman, Mitchell, Owen, Armour and Wynne. All designs should be submitted to them as soon as possible.
The annual reception of the Chancellor to the students and members of the faculty of the University will be held in Spooner Library Hall Friday evening, Dec. 7. This reception has been necessarily postponed until this time by reason of the delay in the arrangements for the lighting of the building. This will be the formal opening of Library Hall. All students of the University and members of the faculty are cordially invited to be present.
The COURIER-REVIEW desires to call the attention of all students in the School of Arts to the importance of the pronouncing contest for which the Language Conference is making arrangements. No subject is of more general importance to us than the art of correctly pronouncing the English language, yet it is grieviously neglected by many of our students. The
Language Conference has devised a plan for creating an interest in this subject and is providing means for giving this interest a practical and profitable direction and application. It is to be hoped that no student will be found too busy or too indifferent to become interested in this matter, at least to the extent of entering the contests. No one can possibly fail to get a full return for every minute devoted to this work. As an extra incentive to undertake the work the committee having arrangements in hand offer a series of prizes of considerable value to any student. The books which will be used to select all words from for use in the contests can now be had at all the city book stores, Phyf's "Seven Thousand Words often mispronounced." Provide yourself with a copy and go to work.
Chemical Seminary.
Review from German Chem. Periodic, by E.C.Frankle; Notes from the Comptes Rendus, M.Z.Kirk; Search for the absolute zero, L.S. Chamberlain.
Language Conference.
At the last meeting of the Language Conference a paper on the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles was presented by Mr. A. B. Bates. The play is founded on the incident of the bow and arrows of Heracles. They were given to Philoctetes to guard. While they remained in his possession Troy could not fall. The incident has been used by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Sophocles diverges from the story. The play opens with the landing of Oddyseus and Neoptolemus upon the lonely coast of Lemnos. In Neoptolemus there are two opposing impulses; his conscience and pity for the wretched man Philoctetes driving him one way, and his supposed duty to the Greeks another. Even after the bow and arrows have been entrusted to the care of Neoptolemus by the unspecting Philoctetes in a paroxysm of pain, Neoptolemus wavers and is about to return them, but the crafty Oddyseus restrains him. The deus ex machina is skillfully introduced when Heracles appears and decides the affairs.
Prof. Wilcox spoke of the craft and cunning of Ulysses here portrayed, the type having been degraded from Homer to the Attic Greek.
Prof. Carruth gave "Some English Parallels