Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent contribution, it seems out of place in a magazine professing to publish "the best literary work that is produced by students of the university." The regular graduate article, written by Mr. Francis C. Lowell, compares "Harvard and the Continental Universities." The author shows that while the German universities invite students to learn, but do not concern themselves farther, Harvard has very different functions. Harvard undertakes "the advancement of learning and sound morals alike." She has therefore "the full right to make and enforce such regulations as she believes profitable to good morals among her students...
...increased through the influence of the library committee, and by the generosity of friends, and it now numbers 2893 volumes, many of which are of great value-an increase of 677 volumes. A number of books have been given to the library during the year, notably a collection of German and French books which came in two large boxes from an unknown source...
Yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, Professor Francke began the course of lectures which the instructors of the German department will deliver to the freshman during this and next month...
Professor Francke divided German literature into three Epochs which group themselves about the dates 600, 1200, 1800, marking respectively the period of migration, the age of chivalry, and the troublous times of the French revolution. The migration of the Germanic tribes brought about a great increase of race feeling; and a corresponding decrease of moral sentiment; it is a time of rapid expansion, and of unscrupulous accumulation. Out of such experiences the great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned...
Epochs of German Literature. Lecture. Asst. Professor Francke. Sever...