Word: reade
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This afternoon at 4.30 p. m., Mr. C. T. Copeland will read in Sever 11 some selections from Hamlet including the principal ghost scenes and the scenes between Hamlet and Ophelia. This will be the last of the series of afternoon lectures and will be open to the public though particularly designed for students and their friends...
...Wednesday afternoon, April 24, at 4.30 P. M., Mr. C. T. Copeland will read in Sever 11, some selections from Hamlet. There have been few opportunities for those outside the university to hear Mr. Copeland, and it is felt that all who have been entertained and instructed by Mr. Copeland's series of lectures and readings would gladly share the pleasure with their friends. This announcement is therefore made before vacation in order that those who wish to invite their friends to Harvard on some day of special interest may make arrangements accordingly. This will be the last...
...poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover of poetry...
...literary course will be given by the department of English at Yale next year, entitled "Modern Novels." The course will consist almost entirely of the rapid reading of living authors, with a general discussion of each work. The idea is to take up each week some English, American, French, German or Russian novel, translations of foreign works always being used. Such authors as Thomas Hardy, Weyman, Meredith, Tolstoi, Alphonse Daudet, Heyse, Mrs. Ward, Hall Caine, C. D. Warner and Howells will be among those studied, the recitation hours being given up to a lecture on the book in hand, with...
...library. While the course will be an unusually interesting one, it will be seen that it will require a fair amount of outside work, and no one who is unwilling to give sufficient time to the subject should elect it. The primary object is to make men read current literature intelligently and to establish sound principles of criticism...