Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Walker of the Institute of Technology delivered last evening, in the Fogg Art Museum, the fifth of his series of lectures on bimetallism. He began with the financial conditions of France in the middle of the century, and described the gold discoveries of that period and their after effect...
...introduction, Professor Moore said that to understand the art of the Middle Ages we must consider architecture, sculpture, and painting together, because at that period these now separate branches were closely united. The architecture of the Middle Ages was primarily that of church edifices. The Gothic system, the distinctive style of the Middle Ages, was developed from the architecture of the early Christian Church. It was the Roman "basilica" which, in all probability, furnished the first model. Professor Moore then traced the growth of church architecture through the early Roman forms, as shown by the churches of St. Paul...
...second of his lectures on "Russian History and Literature," Prince Wolkonsky had a closely attentive and appreciative audience. The object of the lecture was that period of Russian intellectual culture when it enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed...
...later to St. Petersburg, where he obtained his education. He marks the real beginning of Russian poetry. He was in literary life what Peter the Great was in practical life. He expelled the hybrid German words and establised rules of versification. The two other important writers of the period were Soumarakov and Trediakovsky...
General Walker now directed his attention to England at this period. Before the close of the seventeenth century her monetary literature was enriched by the writings of such men as Somers, Montague, Locke, and Newton. In 1666 and act of Charles II opened the mint to coinage of both metals gratuitously. This law continued in force till 1798. It was the policy of the government to treat gold as subsidiary to silver, and leave the guinea to find its own value in silver money...