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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students sin literature, the opening of the Warren House will be of immense advantage, partly through its convenient location at 12 Quincy street, but mainly through its well-selected departmental libraries. The house itself was generously given by the late Henry C. Warren '76 for the use of the Modern Languages Department. Upon its ground floor have been placed the Child Memorial Library, and the libraries of the French, the German and the Romance Language departments. Other rooms in the house are used for some of the smaller advanced courses in literature, and the large room upstairs is available...
...Child Memorial Library, the French, German and Romance libraries of the Division of Modern Languages, and the Sanskrit Library of the Indo-Iranian Department, all of which have hither to been housed in class-rooms in Sever Hall, have now been removed to Warren House, No. 12 Quincy...
...series of lectures on French literature will be given next spring by Henri de Regnier, who will take as his general subject: "Modern French Poetry." The titles of the eight lectures and the dates on which they will be given are as follows...
...human aspect of Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead of supplementing their courses in modern literature, English or foreign, with a course in that literature which may almost be called its starting point, they have gone on continually reminded of their ignorance and as continually turned back by the difficulties in the way of enlightening it. Hitherto they have been made to feel that they must...
...courses the most important is one on "The History of Greek Drama" to be given next year by Professor White, which should be of interest to the undergraduates at large. No knowledge of Greek is required, as the reading may be done in eithther the original or in modern versions. The course, in outline, will be a study of the rise and development of Greek tragedy and comedy, and of the theatre so far as a knowledge of these subjects is necessary to an appreciative understanding of a Greek play; the known facts in the life of the author...