Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entirely new courses and half-courses are to be given next year. A number of others have been very much changed and a few courses given hitherto are to be omitted. Among the most important of the new courses are: French 7 and 7, two half-courses on Victor Hugo and the Romanticist movement, to be given by Assistant Professor de Sumichrast; German 5a, a half-course on the literature of the nineteenth century, to be given by Dr. Nichols; History 16, a course on the constitutional and political history of Germany (1356-1897), to be given by Professor Hart...
...House last evening. Col. Higginson's address was upon "Literary Society in London and Paris in 1878" and took the form of an extremely interesting series of anecdotes of men and women of letters. In his fascinating way Col. Higginson told of Froude, Carlyle, Darwin, Ellis, Browning, Tennyson, Victor Hugo and Du Maurier; briefly describing the characteristics of the men and giving some account of his meeting with them...
...with their fellow men. You represent a race which, while it does not produce the first quality of oratory as yet, still has the vigor and energy of oratory for its own. We can only admire, not closely imitate, the fine oratory of other peoples. I have seen Victor Hugo, even though he read his speech, cause in his audience the rise and swell of an enthusiasm of applause such as I have never seen in an English-speaking audience...
...Hugo Munsterberg, Professor of Experimental Psychology, left Harvard a year and a half ago, to return to the University of Freiburg, Baden. where also he holds a professorship. He did active service here only three years, but is now considering a proposal recently made him by President Eliot to become a regular, resident professor at Harvard. The Department of Philosophy is awaiting his decision with much interest, for if he refuses the offer, the Department will lose a valuable member, and readjustments will be necessary...
...Edition of Eugene Field, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.'s new and beautiful Edition of the American Authors, Lowell, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier and Longfellow, 350 steel eng. on Japan paper, Vilon Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated) very rare; or any of the Standard Ed. in superior bindings, Victor Hugo, Bulwer, Dickens, Dumas, Thackeray, Waverly and Irving. The whole set delivered at once and payments of $1 or $2 per mo. entirely satisfactory. X CRIMSON office...