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During the second half-year on Monday evenings at 7 o'clock in Harvard 1, Dr. Cooley will read the Odyssey, covering as much ground as possible in the time allowed. The readings will be about one hour in length and will be open to all members of the University. Any who expect to attend the course are requested to consult Dr. Cooley at their earliest convenience...
...poet is the interpreter of his age to itself, yet he is not the interpreter to his age alone. He is the contemporary of all ages. The Ilad and Odyssey are not antiquated and the characters of Shakespeare are all modern characters because human nature remains unalterable in its essential elements...
...SUMICHRAST.GREEK C.- There will be an hour examination in Greek C, on Tuesday, November 7. All members of the course will please bring both parts of Cauer's Odyssey to the examination room...
...literature of power includes the works of the imagination, novels and dramas and the like. Men of large observation are the authors of the greatest works of human literature. The Iliad and Odyssey give evidence of this; with St. Augustine it was the same. Dante, during his long weary exile devoted himself to observation. Shakspere, it is needless to speak of. Goethe saw things as did no one else. Browning's greatness lies in the results of his observation. These are the great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser...
...Odyssey was not composed until after the Iliad had attained nearly its present form. At least three-quarters of it was composed by one man. If the Odyssey alone had come down to us, there never would have been any "Homeric question...