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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Popular Science Monthly--"Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty," by F. A. Woods '98M.; "Science versus Art Appreciation," by John Quincy Adams...
Commander Peary has been engaged in Arctic discovery for over fifteen years, and has made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He is the author of "Northward Over the Great Ice," and of various contributions to geographical and popular magazines on Arctic exploration. In his lecture this evening he will give a summary of the geographical results obtained during his last expedition to the Arctic regions. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
Examples of such subjects are: Pastoral Poetry, the Popular Epic, the Influence of Aristotle on the Drama in any Modern Literature...
Another scheme is to move some of the larger courses into the afternoon hours, with the purpose of making these hours more popular. A third plan is to have an 8 o'clock hour, hold Chapel at 9 o'clock and then arrange the courses on from 9.30 o'clock. Aside from the objection that it might be difficult to get men to attend an 8 o'clock lecture, this last plan is opposed by those interested in the Chapel, who object to having the service placed between recitation hours...
...short Western trip. He will visit Cincinnati, Chicago, Madison and Milwaukee. Today he will address the students of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and tomorrow evening will attend the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Milwaukee. On Thursday he will deliver a lecture in German on "The Popular Conception of Language," before the German Club of Milwaukee. Professor von Jagemann will return to Cambridge at the close of the mid-year period...