Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Marsh delivered the second lecture of the series given under the auspices of the Department of French and the Cercle Francais. He announced the subject of the next lecture, by Professor lanman, on November 6: "The Oriental Source of the Fables of LaFontaine," to be illustrated by the stereopticon. His own subject was: "A French Literary Court in the 12 th Century...
From the middle of the fourteenth century, said Professor Marsh, to the beginning of the nineteenth, the Middle Ages were but little studied. A revival of interest in them came only after the Renaissance movement had nearly spent itself and was giving way to the Romantic movement which succeeded it. Though the latter itself waned with the advance of the century, the study of the Middle Ages did not decay. It had a more stable foundation than mere temporary interest in the fantastic and extraordinary; for in the Middle Ages we find the beginnings of ourselves. It is extremely important...
...second lecture, under the auspices of the Department of French and the Cercle Francais, will be given this evening at 7.45 o'clock, in the lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum, by Professor Marsh. His subject is "A French Literary Court in the 12th Century." The lecture is open to the public...
Scattered along the shore are small hills, covered with a stunted growth of trees, or left entirely bare; behind these, marshes have grown through which the sea sends tide streams. These marshes, in the days of the early settlers, were the hay fields, and even now cattle feed upon them. Upon a marsh the new part of Boston has been built and in other adjacent places attempts are being made to use this marshy land...
...Marsh '99, 39 Hastings...