Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chaucer Readings. The Prioresses Tale. Professor Briggs. Sever...
...students, who make a specialty of science or the like, leave college without ever knowing what they ought to read, or having a desire to read. Yet a few well put and timely words might indeed work much good among those whose tastes are not yet formed. The Chaucer Readings are something; but they are not enough. So we should like to see some avowedly literary society, like the O. K. try to have some public presentation of the subject...
...English department. But, as I understand the matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned, we have but two half courses given in alternate years. But the writings...
...have been "holding hard," to use a familiar figure, while the faculty got ready for this fresh "heave." That the vigor of the latter has been increased by the respite, is shown in the unusually attractive Calendar for the coming week. The more popular announcements include one of the Chaucer Readings by Prof. Briggs, so much enjoyed last year: Mr. O. W. Holmes' lecture on "The Law"; Dr. Farnham's "Health and Strength"; Prof. Hill's Lecture to freshmen on "English Authors," besides the Harvard Union debate. Among the more advanced class of subjects are the Mathematical Seminars and Prof...
...Chaucer Readings. The Prioresses Tale. Professor Briggs. Sever...