Word: reade
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Last evening in Sever 5 Mr. C. H. C. Wright '91 read his Bowdoing Prize Dissertation on "The Influence of Contemporary French Literature upon that of England and America during the past Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism...
...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
SEMINAR IN SPANISH I.- Gil Blas will be read from the text Tuesday evening...
SEMINAR IN SPANISH I.- Gil Blas will be read from the text Tuesday evening...
SEMINAR IN SPANISH I.- Gil Blas will be read from the text Tuesday evening...