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There will be important changes in the construction of the German courses next year. There will be three courses for freshmen: German A, like the present German A; German B, for more advanced freshmen who may wish to jump German 1; and German C for those who have already studied...
There will be material changes in the German courses next year. Courses two, three and four will be parallel courses, dealing with Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe respectively.
The Annex library has been increased by a generous gift of books from Professor William P. Atkinson of the Institute of Technology, who has in former years contributed a number of important classical texts, comprising more than one hundred volumes. The present gift numbers two hundred and twenty five books...
Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of...
Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to...