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...member of the Board of Overseers from 1856 to 1868. The collection is a general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes of engraved plates. There are also many works on numismatics, and others of interest in English and French literature. Mr. Ernest L. Gay at the same time added to the gift a number of volumes from his own library, consisting of books relating to Napoleon and of English poetical tracts of the eighteenth century...
...examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of examinations." Examinations Today. Anthropology 5, Sever 29 Architecture 1c, Sever 5 Engineering 5f, Pierce 103 English 40, Holden Fine Arts 5, Pierce 103 French 2aIII, IV, V, Upper Mass French 2c, New Lect. Hall Geology C, Upper Mass. German B, Sever 6 German 2b, Zool. Lect. Rm. Greek A, Sever 29 Greek BI, Sever 30 History 12b, Lower Mass. Latin 6, Sever 18 Mathematics D, Lawrence 1 Mathematics 4, Sever...
Professor G. P. Baker '87, of the Department of English, will sail this morning for New York from Cherbourg. Since October Professor Baker has been in France where he has given a course of lectures at the University of Parts on "The Development of English Tragedy and Comedy between 1590 and 1800." After completing his lectures at the University of Paris, he travelled through the French province. speaking before the students of the Universities of Nancy, Dijon, Lyons, Grenoble, Aix, Marseilles, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rennes, Caen and Lille...
...last course was given at the Sorbonne. On the occasion of his final lecture, Professor Baker was given an ovation. He reviewed the main points and objects of his previous lectures. dwelling particularly upon the relations between farce and drama as pertaining to the history of the English stage. The future of the English drama, he declared, rests in bringing the play to the position of responding to the demands of the great thinking and feeling classes that have been educated in the secondary schools...
...studious assemblies that have attended the course have been much impressed by Professor Baker's free manner of presenting the great period of English literature, and particularly by his clear and measured diction...