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...Copeland will give two readings from the literature of the eighteenth century, on Tuesday evenings, February 20 and 27, in Sever 11, beginning at 8 o'clock. They will be open to members of the University only...
...poor and deserving scholars, having an income of from $50 to $300 each. Up to this time the accounts of the College had been kept in a single entry and annual assignments were made of the specific incomes of the several scholarships. Just before the close of the eighteenth century the system of double entry book-keeping was adopted, and the existing bequests of which the Treasurer had any knowledge were bunched in a single account termed the "Exhibition Account." The records of some of the oldest scholarships were therefore lost. Most of them, however, are recorded either...
...Copeland gave the first of his series of readings from the authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries last night in Sever 11. Selections from the following works were read: Jeremy Taylor's, Sir Thomas Brown's and Lord Bacon's essays concerning friendship; Heywood's, "The Woman Killed with Kindness"; "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," by Sir John Suckling; "To Lucasta on Going to the War," and "Lovelace to Althea from Prison," by Colonel Lovelace; "Sin," by George Herbert; "No Armor Against Fate," by James Shirley; "Shall I, Wasting in Despair," by George Wither...
...Copeland will give a series of four readings on English literature, two of which will be taken from the seventeenth and two from the eighteenth centuries. The first reading will be held next Wednesday night in Sever 11 and the others will follow, probably at intervals of a week. The readings will be open to members of the University only...
With its twenty-two hundred volumes, the French Library is also very complete. These include the literary history of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of fiction, of poetry and of the drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre...