Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Copeland will give a series of six lectures in February or March, for the benefit of the Prospect Union. He will speak on the English poets, principally those of the nineteenth century...
...Requiem"-on the death of President McKinley-runs sincerity of though, but, unfortunately, it is incorporated into a curious jogging, jingling rhythm mor eappropriate to a description of a sleigh-ride, for instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched in a tone the reverse of the grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition...
...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...Putnam and Son. of New York have just published in book form a series of essays entitled "Record of Progress During the Nineteenth Century," in which Professor Trowbridge has an article entitled "Progress of Electricity During the Nineteenth Century." This article has previously appeared in the Century number of the New York Poet which came out about the first of January...
Science--"The Development of Exact Science in the Nineteenth Century," by Henry C. Jones '80. "A Notable Study of Eclipse Meteorology," by Assistant Professor R. DeC. Ward. "Current Notes in Physiography," by Professor W. M. Davis. Also minor articles by F. C. Waite '96 and G. G. MacCurdy...