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Last evening in Sever 5 Mr. C. H. C. Wright '91 read his Bowdoing Prize Dissertation on "The Influence of Contemporary French Literature upon that of England and America during the past Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism...
...Dudleian lecture this evening marks an epoch in the religious history of Harvard and serves to make plain the tendency of American colleges toward non-sectarianism. We have no doubt that the Puritan founder of the series would be amazed at the prospect of a Roman Catholic delivering a lecture in this course, but now-a-days we feel ourselves able to listen to the words of both creeds, sure that we shall discern the truth. The course has been established many years; it has always attracted renowned men and been followed with great interest...
...second epoch groups itself about 1200. The European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic...
...third epoch it is the ideas of personal liberty and individual development which animate the literature. The religious and political movements toward freedom which are characteristic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries influence the literature. Two immortal men, Goethe and Schiller, both working for the same end, an ideal humanity, are the central figures of this last epoch...
...pledges-Civil Servics Record, May 1889; Public Opnion, March 30, August 13, June 22, 1889. (a) unprecedented demand for office-I'ublic Opinion, May 18, 25, July 20; New York Post, June 25; Nation, April 25, May 2, 9, 16, June 20, July 11, September 19, 26. (b) Nepotism-Epoch, August 2; Nation, May 1, July 4. (c) there have been gross abuses in the pension department-Public Opinion, May 18, July 6, September 7, 21; Nation...