Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This evening the first of a series of five lectures on "The Intellectual Life in Germany," will be given in Sever 11, at 7.30 o'clock under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Henry Villard, of New York, will speak in German on "Das Deutschland von Heute." Mr. Villard is a fine German scholar, has traveled considerably in Germany, and has been in close relations with Prince Bismark, so that those who understand German, by attending the lecture tonight, will undoubtedly learn much that is of interest in regard to the present political outlook of Germany...
...movement has been started among those men who have come to Harvard from other colleges, with the object of counteracting the wrong impressions of Harvard life and methods which have been wide spread recently...
...lecturer said in brief that the ancient world has passed away, but its arts and literature still remain, and from these we can bring everything before as connected with the life of the races which lived and flourished centuries ago. In all these traditional and historical remembrances, Homer is seen as a central figure. In the Greek world long ago he was the same glorious power that he is to us today. Seven hundred years before Christ, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey marked the beginning of the literature of all Europe, and through all the ages since they have been...
...spirit of the age, as revealed by statistics, says that the present stages towards professional life are too circuitous and slow. Harvard has her choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion...
...this process of screwing up the requirements were to be continued for half a century at the rate which some of its friends advocate, the graduates of first-class medical, divinity and law schools would be confirmed old bachelors long before they reached active professional life. Moreover, the graduates of the best fitting schools would by that time be as well equipped as was many a man of an earlier generation at the proud day when he received his degree of A. B. Even at the present, there are many graduates of these high grade fitting schools who elude...