Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chaucer Readings. The Knightes Tale, concluded. Professor Briggs. Sever...
...Chaucer Readings. The Knightes Tale, continued. Professor Briggs. Sever...
This evening Prof. Briggs continues his readings from Chaucer. While these readings have been attended by many members of the college, yet we cannot think that they have received all the appreciation which they deserve. Of readings in general, we believe it may be said that they are not fully appreciated by college students. The more popular entertainments receive crowded audiences, while the more instructive and more valuable ones are in a measure neglected. We are sure that those who have the time to attend the reading in Sever will be repaid...
Next week's calendar is good reading. The Chapel is to be opened once more, and Mr. Studd will speak Sunday evening on "The Recent Religious Revival in the English and Scotch Universities." Monday evening comes Prof. Briggs' Chaucer reading and the Scientific Seminary. But Tuesday will be the great day of the week, with the lecture by Mr. Charles F. Adams on railroading. That the capabilities of Sever 11 will be taxed to the utmost is not to be doubted. So would the capabilities of Sanders for that matter. We have given up asking why these lectures are given...
...Chaucer Readings. The Knightes Tale, continued. Professor Briggs. Sever...