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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Divinity School Chapel. Preaching service...
...greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion of the two arts. Nathan...
...customary the first pages of the Index contain the various social and literary organizations. The papers, the departmental clubs, the religious societies, the literary societies, the social clubs, the musical organizations, the school clubs, the state clubs, etc.- all are arranged most systematically, each by itself. In the list of class secretaries a change has been made. In the last Index when the secretary of a class was not known, it was so designated; this year, not only is the fact designated, but the name of some prominent member of the class is added...
...deprecates the general quality of the instruction received in our colleges now, and asserts that in higher instruction there has been no advance in methods, "no universally recognized step in the science and art of teaching," that will compare with the improvement of methods in public school instruction. And the reason for this he finds in the lack of any fundemental law of pedagogy among college professors. College professors are free-lances and when they are successful teachers it is ascribed to their individuality rather than to the correctness of their methods; in consequence the value of their example...
Holden Chapel was well filled last evening by members of the St. Paul's Society. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who, after a short address explaining the purpose of the meeting, introduced Mr. Endicott Peabody, principal of the Groton school. Mr. Peabody spoke of the manner in which Harvard is looked upon by those not connected with the university. He said that many feel that our system of religion is not apt to work for, the best interests of the students; that the popular impression is that Harvard influences are not of the best. He spoke...