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...graduated from Columbia University in 1870. He has been prominent for many years in the movement to purify municipal politics in New York, and has twice been mayor of Brooklyn, from 1881 to 1883, and from 1883 to 1885. From 1889 to 1901 he was president of Columbia University, and in 1899 was appointed by President McKinley United States delegate to the Peace Congress at the Hague. In 1902 he was elected mayor of Greater New York, his term of office expiring last January. Mr. Low is a member of the American Philosophical Society, vice-president of the New York...
...following program will be rendered: Overture, "Carneval," Dvorak; Concerto for violin, No. 2, Wieniawski; second movement from "Fantastic" Symphony, Berlioz; Symphony No. 5, Beethoven...
...December 28, 29 and 30 the American Historical Association will hold its wentieth annual meeting in Chicago. Professors A. B. Hart '80, A. C. Coolidge C. H. Haskins and E. F. Gay will attend from Harvard. Professor Gay will read a paper on "The Significance of the Inclosure Movement in England...
...dealing with the first and least violent stage of the Russian socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities...
This attitude, which is a step in advance of that set forth by Herzen, was the ground from which Bakoonin's theories started. Bakoonin formed a most important link between the merely intellectual movement of the '40's and the revolutionary period of the '60's; he transmitted the legacy of Herzen's comparatively anarchistic socialism to the first Russian outbreaks in later years. There now arose a most important question--was the mere emancipation of the poorer classes to act as a stepping-stone to the realization of the most radical socialistic aspirations of these people? The discussion...