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...when the president will announce the programme of lectures for the year and read two short papers on "New England Camera Club Activities" and "Some Photographic Effects and How to Make Them." All College men interested in photography are invited. At the second meeting Professor George Santayana of the Department of Philosophy will give the first regular lecture of the year on "The Photograph and the Mental Image...
Professor Royce offers a new course, Philosophy 15, on the Theory of Knowledge, which is intended only for students who have had some previous training in elementary logic. Philosophy 1A will be conducted during the second half year by Dr. Miller, instead of by Prof. Royce. Assistant Professor Santayana will have charge of a new course in research devoted to the study of Aristotle's Metaphysics. The following courses in other departments have been added to the list of courses which may be counted for honors in Philosophy: Classical Philology 27 2--Aristotle; Greek 13 1--Plato; Latin...
...William Henry of St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pa., will also lecture before the Catholic Club in the Fogg Lecture Room on "Religion in Shakspere." This will be the most important of the Catholic Club lectures, and will, in a way, be a reply to a recent article by Professor Santayana, entitled, "The Absence of Religion in Shakspere." This lecture will be open to the public...
...Monthly for March opens with an eloquent appeal by Professor Santayana for a change in the method of teaching Latin in our present educational system. The learning of Latin was a fashion and has passed as all fashions do. "Instead of teaching with Latin and Greek words we should deal with Greek and Latin things. . . . Imagine the content of such courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin...
...there are 111 Harvard instructors offering courses in Radcliffe, which is an increase of ten over last year. Professors Paine, Smith, James, Marsh; G. T. Moore, Emerton, Wolff, Cunningham and Santayana, are among those who will not give their usual courses, and the additions include Professor Hall on Celestial Mechanics, Professor Davis, Professor Mark and Professor Warren. There are twenty-five new instructors...