Chair Of Dramatic Art

Those who had the good fortune to meet Bronson Howard, the dramatist, during his stay in Arm Arbor last winter, will be interested in the following, which Is part oí a letter written by him and which appeared in the New York Tribune of May 8. As is known, Prof. Alfred Hennequin, who gave the lectures to which Mr. Howard refers, has resigned his position as teacher of French in the U. of M., to devote hia whole time to dramatic work. Thus the University is without his course of dramatic lectures. Would t not be a a good thing to establish a chair of dramatic art, and let him continue his work here? The Register saggests it to the board of regents. After speaking of the importance of in8truotion in the United State for young authors, Mr. Howard says: The slmplest laws of dramatic construction are vague unrealities to most of Ihe educated young men in America; yet four-flfths of the educated young men wlll attempt, or have already attempted, to write plays, while many of them become critics of the drama. The studente of our great univereitles are driïled lu rhetoric and prosody ■ they are iectured to on the poetic beauties of the Elizabethan dramatis. But, with one exception, none of our universities attempt to teach the