Word: sever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bolivar, the George Washington of South America, who bulks so large in the history of the northern part of that continent, is to be Professor Hackett's subject at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school...
Today the course menu is rather drear and I am half tempted to succumb to my more domestic inclinations and stay within the bricked recesses of my Yard abode. However, I shall probably be present at Professor Tatlock's lecture at 9 o'clock in Sever 30 on "Native Influences on the Restoration Drama" because of my already evidenced fondness for that period. I expect to be well up and about for Professor Copeland's discourse on Samuel Johnson, which the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric will deliver in Sever 11 for the benefit of those in English...
Jumping the uninspiring hour of 10 o'clock, I am going to Sever 35 at 11 to hear Dr. Maynadier give the first of two lectures on Dickens in his course on the history of the novel. At noon, I may go to Semitic Museum 1 to hear Professor Hooton in what should be a very interesting lecture on fossil man, but I think now that I shall probably hear Professor Hocking in Emerson D at the same time on the nature of liberty...
...lecturing at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on Roman politics and law. It is in Government 2b, and whoever has heard Dr. Elliott will understand my intention of visiting the lecture, even though they may think little of the subject. At the next hour, I am going to Sever 17 to hear Professor Elton lecture in his course on criticism. His subject this afternoon will be Aristotle's Poetics...
Second only to the Nordic legend in much of our self-consciousness comes our linguistic pride in the English tongue. It lies at the base of what is commonly called Anglo-Saxon supremacy. And discussion of it would appeal to me, and I shall be sure to go to Sever 8 at 10 to hear Dr. Magoun in English 75. His subject is "English as a World Language...