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...their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam Smith? Man has always expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, G. '03, professor of English at the University, will deliver the first of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Radcliffe endowment fund in Sanders Theatre at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Professor Lowe's subject will be, "The Noblest Monument of English Prose". Today's lecture is the first of a course of eight to be given on consecutive Monday afternoons by University professors and associate professors now offering courses at Radcliffe College. The other lecturers are Professor G. H. Parker '87, Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Professor...
February 19.-- John Livingston Lowes '03, Professor of English, "The Noblest Monument of English Prose...
...Talking", said Holmes, "is one of the fine arts--the noblest, the most important, and the most difficult"; and those who have read his Breakfast Table chats will agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order...
...character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want...