Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frank P. Sheldon, '89, has settled for the winter in Berlin, where he is devoting himself to a thorough study of the German language...
There have been a great many changes and additions to the courses of instruction. These have been already outlined in these columns. One of the most valuable of the additions is the course of six lectures on German literature given to the freshmen by assistant Professors Bartlett, Sheldon, Francke and von Jagemaun...
Assistant Professor Sheldon delivered the second lecture in the course by German instructors in Sever 11, yesterday afternoon on the Mediaeval Poetry of Germany. He said that he proposed to give a general idea of German poetry from the classic period to the middle ages. The language of the middle high German, he said, has undergone a considerable change owing to the period of sterility previous to the close of the high German period. The literature of the mediaeval period is almost wholly in vers. Its subjects, which are of a national, popular and lyric character, originated in songs celebrating...
...Sheldon closed his lecture with selectlons from the several poems he had described...
...instructors in Harvard college conducted courses in the Annex last year: New Testament, Professor Thayer; Greek, Professors Wright and Goodwin, Messrs. Wheeler and Parker; Latin, Professors Lane, Allen, Greenough, Smith and Preble, Messrs. Richardson and Parker; English, Professors Briggs and Wendell, Messrs. Baker, Clymer, Kittredge and Hayes; German, Professors Sheldon and Bartlett, Messrs. Babbitt and Grandgent; French, Professors Cohn and Sanderson, Mr. Sumichrast; Italian, Dante, Professor Norton, Philosophy, Professor Royce; Political Economy, Professor Tausigg and Mr. Huntington; History, Professors Macvane. Emerton and Hart, Mr. Bendelari; Music. Professor Paine, Mathematics, Professors Byerly and B. O. Pierce, Mr. Sawin; Physics, Messrs. Hall...