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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Coolidge will give the third in the series of afternoon lectures in Sever 11 this afternoon at 4.30. His subject will be "Africa." The talk will be a general one, with remarks on the nature of the country, recent explorations, and particularly modern political divisions and the recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 p.m. Dr. Coolidge will speak in Sever 11 on Africa. The talk will be a general one with remarks on the nature of the country, the reasons why we have known so little about it, recent explorations and particularly modern political divisions. The recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile should lend added interest...
Madame Eleanora Duse, who was first seen in this country only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish...
From the Renaissance scientific movement passes to modern times. Some quality inherant in the Teutonic race made it capable of greatly advancing scientific development. The Greek seed reaped a rich harvest. The development of science was simultaneous with the reformation. Science and religion parted in the Greek days and they have had many conflicts since. At present one can look forward to a future time when they will be reconciled from a greater conception of the infinite nature of the universe...
...Modern Language Conference. Discussion of Professor Hempl's Circular ("American Speech-Maps"). Sever...