Word: subjectivity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheme of a series of four or more lectures to be given during the present spring would undoubtedly meet with great success could it be satisfactorily arranged. There are many gentlemen both among the residents of Cambridge and the professors in the University admirably fitted to speak upon the subject of "Harvard in the Past." Surely it would add much to the interest of our college life if we knew more of the historic events connected with the origin and growth of the college. We wish to give our hearty support to the plan and urge its immediate adoption...
...Coolidge will give the third in the series of afternoon lectures in Sever 11 this afternoon at 4.30. His subject will be "Africa." The talk will be a general one, with remarks on the nature of the country, recent explorations, and particularly modern political divisions and the recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton delivered his fifth lecture on Dante last evening in Sanders Theatre before a large audience. The picture of Purgatory as given by Dante in the Divine Comedy, was the subject of the lecture, which in brief was as follows...
...action but a disposition, of which the sinner is purged. Here the soul welcomes suffering as an approach to the utmost felicity. There is terrible suffering, but suffering always borne with content. The shades of Purgatory have the semblance of the earthly body, but they are subject to no fleshly need, though susceptible to pain and pleasure...
...seniors have now all received their caps and gowns, which are extremely picturesque in their effect. The present junior class is agitating the subject of establishing the custom of wearing caps and gowns throughout the senior year, as it is thought that the dignity which the gowns give might as well be utilized all the time, as well as in the spring alone...