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...income of the endowment is preferably to be spent in acquiring volumes of English literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, periods with which Professor Greenough has been concerned in his courses at Harvard. The fund, established by more than 80 individual bequests, is to commemorate Professor Greenough's services as dean of Harvard College from...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been selected to deliver the annual Halley Lecture at Oxford University on June 18. This lecture, which is delivered each year by some well-known astronomer, is named for Edmund Halley, who lived during the last half of the seventeenth, and first half of the eighteenth centuries. Halley, particularly famous for his cometary researches, encouraged Isaac Newton to the publication of his "Principia" and to the announcement of the law of gravitation...
Progressing beyond the seventeenth century, the fourth division concerned itself with the verse and prose of eighteenth century writers in general and of Pope, Burns, Franklin and Edwards in particular...
...third division covered the period of the Restoration and the Neo-Classicists, including among its writers Milton and Dryden. The revolution in English verse which characterized the seventeenth century was likewise emphasized...