Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raphael Demos, Assistant Professor of Philosophy will discuss the lives of great ancient and modern philosophers Tuesday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock, in Emerson Hall...
...examination time melancholia hits Junior and Senior Language concentrators this week, David Worcester '27, instructor in English, and of the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages throws a little light on the subject of "Bible, and Shakespeare, and Authors...
...pamphlet which is issued by the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages explaining the nature and purpose of the Bible. Shakespeare, and ancient authors examinations the hope is expressed that no one shall graduate from Harvard without some familiarity with the greatest authors in the history of the western world. Yet if the words of many Juniors who are now busily cramming for these exams, which occur at the beginning of next week, have any weight, it appears that the exams are failing in their attempt to give students any liking for the men on whom they are soon...
...recess, since it hardly requires any formal instruction, and, for anyone who can give time to it, it is universally delightful. The King James Bible is what Professor Lowes calls the noblest monument of English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor pleasure, and to fill out his days with reading that had better been done in term...
Other courses starting in October include descriptive astronomy; elementary and advanced English composition; conversational French; French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages; the American Constitution, including a study of Supreme Court decisions; the American Revolution and formation of the Union; and great philosophers of ancient and modern times. In November, a course in geology will begin; and in February, courses in European history 1815-71, in geography, and in zoology...