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...this fundamental topic, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary Capitals, the focus of the great Saharan caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the half-civilized tribes who inhabit the deserts and tablelands of Tripoli. He will also talk on the life of the Grecian sponge-divers of the Mediterranean, and will describe the dramatic incident of the burning of the United States Frigate "Philadelphia" in 1804 and his discovery of the wrecked hull off the Tripoli coast just a century later...
...Duncan will be assisted in his lecture by Mrs. Duncan, who will give illustrations of the folk-songs and sacred hymns collected by Mr. and Mrs. Duncan during a ten year residence in Greece. These songs will be given most appropriately in costume with Grecian pipe accompaniment...
...sing selections from Schubert's setting of Mueller's poems, "Die Schoene Muellerin" and "Die Winterreise." And on Friday evening, January 14, Mr. Raymond Duncan will lecture on "Hellenic Music" which will be illustrated by folk-songs by Mrs. Duncan. These will be given most appropriately in costume with Grecian pipe accompaniment. The lecture will be given in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock...
...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT GREEK UNIVERSITY LIFE. II. Historical Survey of University Education in Grecian lands during the first five centuries of the Christian Era. Dr. John W. H. Walden. Harvard...