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...might at first think, that Mr. Conrad usually writes in superlatives. Nor is statement of fact always correct. The first article, which makes a plea for a better and more accurate acquaintance with what it calls "Harvard's past," speaks of "five-dollar" fines, it would seem in the seventeenth century, and of University Hall as an eighteenth-century dining-room, though it was not built till early in the nineteenth century. And did Daniel Webster over say, as Mr. Mansfield--no doubt quite unintentionally--would lead you to think: "I shall enter on no encomium upon Harvard"? But with...
Whatever else one may think of Gilbert Murray's scholarship, he has, at least, taken advantage of a second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce...
...recent snowfall insures success for the seventeenth annual Winter Carnival which starts at Dartmouth today and will last until the end of the week. The chief events of the carnival will be the intercollegiate ski and snowshoe races. Today's program includes the Carnival dance supper...
Dartmouth's seventeenth winter carnival will commence tomorrow night and will last until Saturday at midnight. The recent snow fall insures the success of the occasion...
History 31 hf. Selected Topics from the History of Continental Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...