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Consistently an Anglophile--though he referred to the English as being "without intelligence"--Goethe read avidly English anuthors with whom many English critics have been unfamiliar, and Dr. Boyd quotes his opinions of them, especially of the minor seventeenth centuary poets. In view of Goethe's scientific interests, on the other hand, it is perhaps not strange that he read and admired Thomas Sprat's "History of the Royal Society...
...policy of Le Cercle of giving French plays by American authors." While this may be an admirable policy, it should only be followed when there is a sufficiently worth-while play to make use of. This is clearly not true of "Serenade," which is a sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting was as uninspired as the play, with the exception of Mrs. Neill Phillips, who in the part of Diane de Pierreneuve, spoke with a perfect accent and acted rather well...
...given tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall by T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. The general topic of the lecture series, "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,' will be considered from the standpoint of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poets...
...actually open until the fall of 1638, and the first class was graduated in 1642. There were no bachelor's degrees granted in the years 1644, 1643, 1672, 1682, and 1688: but there were two distinct and separate classes of 1653. There were 55 classes graduated in the seventeenth century, and 100 in each of the subsequent centuries. Consequently (if my arithmetic is correct), the 300th class to be graduated from Harvard College will be the Class of 1945. S. E. Morison...
...dull indistinctness of everything about him, the Vagabond fell into a muddle of thought of unsettled religious aims and clamorous politics. Then he thought of the history of the early seventeenth century. In a hazy and clouded storm of religious, political, and feudal quarrels, the Thirty Years' War was given to the history of man, and the cities of Munster and Osnabruck, separated by a few miles of cool night air similar to what the Vagabond now breathed provided conditions creative of the Treaty of Westphalia...