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...Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon, on "Les Philosophes du XVIIIeme Siecle at la Revolution." He explained the reasons for the struggle in France, and in nearly all continental Europe, between democracy and Christianity. In France, democracy came from the French Revolution, which had its origin in the philosophy of the eighteenth century. The disciples of the philosophers and the leaders of the French Revolution, or their successors, had a distrust for Christianity and considered the Christian churches, and the Catholic church in particular, as obstacles to the new ideas and a political invention to keep the people in servitude...
...Jessen will give at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon in Sever 7 the second of a series of twelve lectures in German, on "Literary and Aesthetic Criticism in Germany in the Eighteenth Century, with some Reference to the Present Time." The subject for this afternoon's lecture will be "Beginnings of Aesthetic Criticism in Germany--especially in reference to Leipniz and Baumgarten." These lectures which are to be given on successive Friday afternoons will be open only to students of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...first of a series of twelve lectures in German, on "Literary and Aesthetic Criticism in Germany in the Eighteenth Century, with some Reference to the Aesthetic Problems of the Present time," will be given this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, in Sever 7, by Dr. K. D. Jessen, formerly an instructor in the German Department. This course has been authorized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but cannot be counted towards a degree. The lectures will be given on successive Friday afternoons and will be open only to students of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...will be placed on exhibition for the first time today. This collection, which includes about seventy galvano-plastic copies, is arranged in three cases; the first case containing works of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the second chiefly those of the seventeenth century, and the third those of the eighteenth century...
...Germanic Museum has received in shipment from a committee of German artists and scientists interested in the Museum, the collection given in Germany of copies of the best work of Nuremberg and Augsberg goldsmiths and silver smiths, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In the collection are imitations of about fifty-five cups, basins and dishes of various designs, many of them of great beauty, and historic interest. The copies are made of bronze, and are gilded and silvered by an electroplating process. They will be put on exhibition about February 15, but will be stored in Robinson Hall...