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...lecture tonight will deal with the evidences of the Homeric poems having been the culmination of a long period of artistic development, rather than the simple and spontaneous expressions of an artless age, which they are ordinarly presumed to have been from the fact that they are the earliest example of Greek literature that has come down to the present time...
...clock, on the subject, "Foreign Influences on Shakespeare." Mr. Lee has done much research work in Elizabethan literature, and has contributed many articles on Elizabethan authors and statesmen to the "Dictionary of National Biography," of which he is editor. He is the author of "Statford-on-Aveon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare," and "A Life of William Shakespeare." The lecture will be open to the public...
...only team played by both Harvard and Brown this year is Wesleyan which was defeated by Brown, 5 to 0, and by Harvard, 35 to 5. These games are obviously an unfair basis for comparison, however, as the former was played while the Brown team was in the earliest stages of development...
...portfolio handed to President Eliot by Prince Henry of Prussia, shows that the gift of the German Emperor to the Germanic Museum will consist of a number of reproductions of German Sculpture, dating from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. The earliest works represented are the famous bronze doors of the cathedral at Hildesheim made in about 1015. The most modern piece is the marble statue of Frederick the Great, made by Gottfried Schadow at Stettin. The works vary in size from the masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin...
...Simile Reproductions Relating to Old Boston and Neighborhood," by S. A. Green '51 ex-mayor of Boston, is a book containing fac-similes of the following documents: The earliest American newspaper, printed in 1690; Hubbard's map of New England, 1677; the Rev. Samuel Willard's "Useful Instructions," 1673; the earliest Boston imprint, 1675; the earliest medical treatise printed in this country, 1678; the earliest book-eatalogue published in America, 1693; Bonner's map of Boston, 1722; the earliest print of Harvard College, 1726; a plot of Cambridge Common, 1784; Butler's map of Groton, Massachusetts, 1832. The print...