Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scene of the "Gotterdammerung" is laid on the coast of the North sea. This consists of thirty-two adventures of 1700 verses. It differs from the "Nibelungen" in the metre of the last verse in that each stanzas is increased by a single accent. The great peculiarity of the poem, however, is that it extends over three generations...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...
...LOWELL.LOST.- On October 19, probably in the college yard, a bundle of MSS containing a copy of some of the private correspondence of George Washington, his own account of various campaigns, etc., etc. Any one returning this will confer a great favor and receive a reward from...
...rapidly increasing business that is brought to it; and it is unnecessary to say that the class rooms are far too few. So small a number does not allow proper ventilation between lectures, and even if there were enough to accomodate all the classes conveniently, this would be a great disadvantage; but when it is added that no one of the rooms is large enough to allow a class of twenty to be comfortable for the space of an hour, it is apparent that greater accommodations are imperatively needed. During the year the executive committee have taken some steps towards...
Professor Putnam has received an image from Idaho taken from an artesian well at a great dep h. It is considered by good authorities a specimen of antediluvian...