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There are quite a few lectures a lacarte offered for today and one table d'hote course as well. At 11 o'clock Professor Wright will discuss the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, of interest now in connection with that other broken fragment of the Constitution which concerns itself with "Prohibition," while at 12 Professor Black will explain the reflection of light to those interested in that mysterious substance without which we could not go to college. At the same hour Professor Langer will go into the intricacies of the Bulgarian problem in Harvard...
...made by James Roosevelt '30, treasurer of the Senior Class, last night. "In order to avoid any confusion among members of the Senior Class, with regard to the Harvard Fund and the letter recently sent out for the purpose of covering the expenses of the class for the fifteenth reunion, I wish to point out that there is no connection between them. It will of course be the policy of the treasurer to turn over to the Harvard Fund for the gift of the Class of 1930 to the University any surplus which may have accrued...
...interest in the Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order of the universe. 9. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli. 10. A study of the decline of Dante's influence in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 11. Modern traits in Dante. 12. Dante in the anecdotic literature of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. 13. The influence of Guido Cavalcanti on Dante. 14. A criticism of Torraca's edition of the Divina Comedia. Other subjects that those above listed may be submitted for approval...
...Library's collection of Florentine picture books is made up of the Savonarola collection, the collection of Sacre Rappresentazioni, and the Newman and Fairfax Murray collections. Florentine picture books are ilustrated by fifteenth and sixteenth country woodcuts, which represent the story of Italian book illustration. They are, with only a few exceptions, small quartos of only a few leaves each. They are religious books, plays and books of popular poems books largely for religious instruction and pictures were used not so much to illustrate particular passages as to inspire the reader with a feeling of devotion. The illustrations are complete...
...three volumes, covers the history of painting and art in Spain from the Romanesque Period up to 1450. In general it discusses the Romanesque Style, then the influence of France and Italy, and concludes with a study of the new international style developed in the early fifteenth century. While being a set complete in itself, the author intends it to be a kind of introduction to a complete history of the subject upon which he is now at work...