Word: germans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Assistant Professor Sheldon delivered the second lecture in the course by German instructors in Sever 11, yesterday afternoon on the Mediaeval Poetry of Germany. He said that he proposed to give a general idea of German poetry from the classic period to the middle ages. The language of the middle high German, he said, has undergone a considerable change owing to the period of sterility previous to the close of the high German period. The literature of the mediaeval period is almost wholly in vers. Its subjects, which are of a national, popular and lyric character, originated in songs celebrating...
...professors and instructors in Harvard college conducted courses in the Annex last year: New Testament, Professor Thayer; Greek, Professors Wright and Goodwin, Messrs. Wheeler and Parker; Latin, Professors Lane, Allen, Greenough, Smith and Preble, Messrs. Richardson and Parker; English, Professors Briggs and Wendell, Messrs. Baker, Clymer, Kittredge and Hayes; German, Professors Sheldon and Bartlett, Messrs. Babbitt and Grandgent; French, Professors Cohn and Sanderson, Mr. Sumichrast; Italian, Dante, Professor Norton, Philosophy, Professor Royce; Political Economy, Professor Tausigg and Mr. Huntington; History, Professors Macvane. Emerton and Hart, Mr. Bendelari; Music. Professor Paine, Mathematics, Professors Byerly and B. O. Pierce, Mr. Sawin; Physics...
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...announced has always been in the scheme of the university. It will not take up at all the philology or literature of the languages, but will be devoted entirely to equipping men with what is needful for scientific work. Dr. Camille Reid, the head of the department, is a German by birth, and is well fitted for the place he occupies, as he speaks French, German and Italian. The method of instruction used will be largely conversational...
Every year sees valuable additions to the lectures of our university, and at no time have these additions been more numerous than at present. Among others, during the coming winter an interesting course will be given on German Literature which will cover in a cursory manner the whole ground of German Literature from the middle ages down to the present century, dwelling most emphatically on the most striking features of this development. By way of pointing out the relation of the literary life of the people to their society and politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend...