Word: russian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers was held yesterday morning. Several new appointments were made in the corps of instructors for next year. One of the most important additions which has been made for some time is a course in Russian. For some years past the need for such a course has been felt. Twelve years ago it was decided to teach Russian, and the instructor was secured; but at the last moment the project fell through. With the lectures lately given by Prince Wolkonsky new interest was aroused, which has now taken this definite form...
...their demands in a body in the form of petitions, which were usually granted. The condition of our (mud) walks we declare abominable and possible of easy cure; the courses in English literature, IX, VII. and others which masquerade under the name "half" course, are preposterous; a chair in Russian Literature we should all very much like to see here at Harvard. Yet it must be admitted that on these several points, as on a hundred others, our opinions are not so united and so asserted as to have any constraining force...
...large audience faced the storm last evening to hear the last lecture in the course by Prince Serge Wolkonsky on "Russian History and Literature." The lecture, dealing with the period since 1860, was of great interest...
...lecturer now compared at length the work of the three great representatives of the Russian naturalistic school-Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. Differing as novelists they also differed as thinkers. Tourgenev pictures evil wherever he sees it-among the peasants or their masters. He unveils humanity by putting the two social classes side by side. He is one of the most striking examples of the power of art, penetrating to the reader's heart by the power of simple beauty. He first gave the name of "nihilists" to those who acknowledged no authority in anything...
Lecture. Russian History and Literature. IV. 1861-. Prince Serge Wolkonsky. Sanders Theatre...