Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...
...taking up his second subject, "Ancient and Modern Views on the Use and Purpose of History," Professor Bury dealt with the question of the real use of history...
...Davis '08, of New York, I. K. Lewis 2L., of Sparta, Wisconsin, and S. F. Peavey, Jr., 2L., of Washington, D. C., were selected for the first team; and G. C. Good '09, T. M. Gregory '10, and S. H. Hurwitz 1G., were chosen for the second team. The subject for the debate is "Resolved, That it will be for the best interests of Cuba that the United States, before the end of the next two years, cease to have any part in the government of that island, reserving only those rights included in the Platt Amendment." The University team...
...Portland Street Baptist Church, Haverhill; December 2, Economic Club, Springfield; December 10, Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell; January 30, Citizens' Association of Quincy; February 5, Lynn Twentieth Century Club, Lynn; and February 27, Parish Club, Cambridge. He also addressed the members of the Harvard Union on the same subject on November...
...President Eliot has confined himself to single speeches on the subject, but as Godkin Lecturer for the current year, an appointment recently given him by the Corporation, he will probably develop the subject of "Municipal Government by Commission" more fully and present it in a series of addresses. The Godkin Lectureship was established in 1903 from a fund contributed mainly in small amounts from many sources as a memorial to Edwin Laurence Godkin, for a long time editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government...