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...large number of significant books. Notable among these works is a translation of the works of Saxo Grammaticus, a study of Michael Drayton, and particularly a distinguished work in four volumes on the history of English literature from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth...
...that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular...
...champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...
Worcester, May 27.--The Harvard golf team won its nineteenth consecutive match this afternoon, when it downed the Holy Cross golfers, 7 to 2. The Crimson has been undefeated during the past two seasons and it will enter the Yale meet a slight favorite to repeat its last year's victory...
...writers of their time, both native and foreign; the valiant Lessing, ever alert in the defense of truth and reason; Goethe, perhaps the most comprehensive genius of modern times, a liberator from everything commonplace; Schiller, apostle of freedom, morality; and beauty--not to mention their numerous successors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If the works of many German authors are heavily weighted with thought, these works are the more stimulating to thought. If, on the other hand, it can be said that par excellence the art of the Germans is music, German lyric poetry, whether spontaneous among the people...