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Professor Bury first spoke on "The Influence of Greek Art on Roman History." Cato was the first Latin historian whose national feelings inspired him to write in Latin. Sallust and Livy followed his example, although the real change was only in the medium of expression. Tacitus, who succeeded these men in Roman historiography, resembled Sallust, but greatly excelled Livy both in narration and rhetoric, though he constantly sacrificed facts to style. The Christianizing movement, he said in concluding this subject, compressed history into a new framework and gave it an entirely different perspective...
...important. The lecturer considered these in detail along with the other historians who came immediately after Thucydides, and carefully traced the influence of rhetoric and philosophy of the subsequent development of history. He then discussed the historical school and distinguished the conventional from the realistic school. In closing he spoke at some length of Aristotle's work on constitutional history...
...first lecture Professor Zueblin, dwell on the importance of individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health...
...first trials to choose the team that will represent the University in the debate with Yale this spring, which were held in Dane Hall last night, an unusually large number of men spoke. Forty-four men made five-minute speeches, on the basis of which the following twelve men were retained: B. G. Brawley 1G., J. E. Cates '10, J. S. Davis '08, G. C. Good '09, T. M. Gregory '10, S. H. Hurwitz 1G., R. B. Jerome 1L., G. I. Lewis '08, J. K. Lewis '09, S. F. Peavey 2L., B. S. Pouzzner '09, and C. H. Raymond...
General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D., D.C.L., President of the National Federation of Hughes Clubs, spoke in the Union last night on Governor Hughes as a presidential candidate...