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Gabriella Bosano, Director of the Department of Italian-Language and Literature at Wellesley College, and well-known Italian scholar, has accepted the invitation of the Circolo Italiano, to speak on December 11 at Phillips Brooks House...
Miss Bosano, who will speak on "Italy in the Poetry of Giosue Carducci," will bring with her the members at the Wellesley Circolo Italiano, of which she is the head. The subject is particularly appropriate as this is the first centenary celebration of Carducci's birth...
...ending on an anticlimax, I will take up two more points which Mr. Bingham makes. He relies very much on the report which Mr. Brundage brought back from Germany after spending a week there. I believe that one need only underline the fact that Mr. Brundage does not speak German and when he spoke to leaders of German Jewry, he did so either in the presence of official representatives of the Nazi government or with them hovering ominously in the background as it were. Even if these leaders of German Jewry did give a clean bill of fare...
Kari Victor, Kuno Franck Professor of German Art and Culture, will speak on "The Crisis in European Culture as Reflected in German Literature" at 4.30 today in the Germanic Museum...
...philosophical contributions. There is no field of knowledge where his influence is not felt. Dante is a closed book without some knowledge of Aristotelianism; and many a passage of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton are half-meaning to us unless we know something of this famous philosopher. When we speak of "liberal education," or "golden mean" or the "theory" of a policy as contrasted with the "practice" we are using words which derive their significance from the part they play in Aristotle's philosophy. As for politics, in view of recent events in Athens, one is reminded of the philosopher...