Word: knowns
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...William Poel, a former director of the Elizabethan Stage Society of London, will lecture on the subject of "The Stage of Shakspere" in the Fogg Lecture room Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Poel is well known as an enthusiastic student of the Elizabethan drama and is probably the most successful of all the reproducers of these plays. He originated the production of the morality play "Everyman...
...scientific world, not only as an investigator and thinker, but also as a reformer, organizer, and teacher in the field of natural science. In recent years he has extended his studies to the broad field of the philosophy of science, a subject to which two of his best-known works are devoted...
Esperanto, the best known of the artificial languages, was invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian. The Esperanto grammar can be learned in less than half an hour, and the vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations...
...club formerly known as the Sophomore Debating Club has reorganized, but is now known as the Harvard Forum. It is no longer limited to Sophomores, but is composed of men from the three upper classes. The object of the club is to give all men who are not members of the University Debating Club an opportunity to take part in public speaking. furthermore, it is a preparatory organization to the University club...
Professor Eugen Kuhnemann will lecture in German in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock on "Gerhart Hauptmann und das Deutsche Drama der Gegenwart." Professor Kuhnemann is Rector or President of the Royal Prussian Academy of Germany, and is well known because of his exhaustive biography of Schiller. The lecture will be open to the public...