Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tuesday, December 27 at 2.30 at the Berkeley School Armory, No. 20 West 44th Street. Mr. George L. Rivers Columbia '68, will make the introductory remarks. J. Walter Smith, Harvard '94, will read a poem, and the presentation of the cup by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Yale '56 will follow...
Professor Albert B. Hart's book entitled "Formation of the Union, 1750.1829" makes the second volume of the Epochs of American History which he is editing himself. The volume aims to follow the principle "of the study of causes rather than of events, the development of the American nation out of scattered and inharmonious colonies." So great a development as this naturally is can be treated of course only in its elements in a volume as small as this, but Professor Hart has treated the subject in an interesting as well as an instructive manner. The various subjects of each...
...sports and about the only one which we have at this time of the year. Many men doubtless hesitate to join them because of their length, but they are seldom much over an hour in duration and the pace is never set so rapidly but that most men can follow it. These runs are well worth joining and we recommend all men who want a good form of exercise to take part in them...
...seems otherwise because athletics by nature force themselves into prominence more quickly than scholarly attainments. Athletics seem to be more absorbing and time taking than they actually are because those in them work in the sight of the public who can know how well they work and can follow their progress. With the student however, it is different; he works secretly and slowly, we cannot know, except periodically, the progress he makes and it is longer before he obtains recognition...
Early in the 12th century translations of French Chansions de Geste begin, - the earliest, Konrad's Rolandsliid, about 1130 and rapidly follow Heinrich von Veldeke, and 'Courtoisie.' The attraction of this poetry led soon to a revival of the German heroic legends. The 12 century saw also the Celtic legends, which had come to be in Northern France the chief vehicles for conveying chivalric ideas, pass into Germany and became highly attractive to the Germans. Soon after narrative poetry after French models began in Germany, lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems...