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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday it was voted that Comparative Literature 12, which was given during the past half-year, should be counted as a half-course toward a degree. It was decided that Classic Philology 571 should be given as a half-course during the second half-year...
...difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these two stages are past, the country will be ready to do its best work for the improvement of the Islands. His conception of the duty of the nation is a high one, for the motives of the Administration have hitherto been prompted by generosity and in many ways are not paralleled in history...
During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...annual report of the Semitic Museum, by the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, states that during the past year the matter of chief interest in this department has been the erection of the Semitic Building. It is expected that the building will soon be in use, but owing to the absence of the Curator, the collections of the Museum will have to remain where they are until next summer. Until last June no provision had been made for supplying the building with cabinets, furniture and library conveniences, but in that month, Mr. Jacob H. Shiff, founder of the Museum...
Several gifts have been received by the Museum during the past year. They include nineteen fragments of papyri with Greek inscriptions, from Egypt, dating from the early centuries of the Christian era, and a handsome Egyptian mummy case...