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Professor Lefranc traced the growth of the Renaissance revival of paganism, as opposed to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. The works of D'Urfee, de Scudery, Descartes and others who preceded Moliere are thoroughly pagan in spirit. The great bishop Fenelon wrote from a point of view almost diametrically...
President Eliot in his address endeavored to show how it is possible to obtain durable satisfaction from College life. Obviously a man must be in perfect physical condition in order to enjoy his life. It is essential, then, to live a clean, vigorous, wholesome life. To do this a man...
...meeting of the Religious Union last night Professor James spoke on "The Ascetic Life." Asceticism, he said, is out of fashion today, even in the Catholic Church. It is the result of deep religious feeling. Religious fervor affects people in different ways; creating cheerfulness in some lives, while to other it gives a negative gloominess the expression of which takes the form of asceticism...
Professor James will give a lecture to the Religious Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock, in Brooks House, on "Ascetic Life." The lecture will be open to the University.
The magazine contains, besides these two articles named above, the following: "From a Graduate's Window," "James Bradstreet Greenough," "Actualities of the Three-Year A.B. Degree," "A Harvard Ascetic--E. A. Sophocles," "Joseph Le Conte," "The Opening of the Harvard Union," "The University," "Athletics," "The Graduates."