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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middle Ages," Professor Haskins stated in the opening remarks of his lecture. "Nothing of that type now thriving ever existed in Rome or Greece." He then contrasted the mediaeval and modern universities by showing that such attractions as athletics, journalism, dramatics, public speaking, and other collegiate activities were quite unknown; that the faculty tended toward thorough instruction in religion regardless of the field of concentration; and that education was limited to a very few courses on account of the then recent exit of learning from the monasteries. He called attention to the fact that college curriculums, degrees, and faculties developed...
...Queen is giving jewels to her prospective daughter-in-law. The Prince of Wales' gift to the future bride is a set of sables, composed of the rarest and finest pelts. The blushing bridegroom will present his prospective spouse with a bracelet adorned with gems. From an unknown source comes a cheque for ?2,500, which is now being distributed in London, Glasgow, York, Cardiff and Belfast for the purpose of giving poor children a good time on the wedding...
...50th anniversary of the Colonne Concerts is being celebrated in Paris. The founding of these concerts by Edouard Colonne marked a new epoch in musical appreciation in France. To the general French public music had never meant anything more than opera. Symphonic music was unknown to them. In the first place they were afraid of it. Colonne, then relatively unknown even in musical circles, educated the general public of Paris not only to an appreciation of the work of the old masters, but he also introduced to them the work of the young Frenchmen of their own time. The orchestra...
...success at a minimum cost, support these "institutions", for modern enlightenment has not yet replaced mediaeval superstition. A "royal road" to learning is still sought,--some uncanny alchemy to make knowledge grow where ignorance grew before. Strangely enough, many people would rather trust to the potency of some unknown agent, than rely on the well-proven prescription of self-denial and hard work...
...whole horror of their oppression and fear before the face of Mystery, there where Mystery pervades all life. I watched the rivers during the severe cold break with a rumbling rear their chains of ice: saw lakes cast up on their shores the bones of human beings: heard unknown wild voices in the mountain ravines: made out the fires over miry swamps of the will o'-the-wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen...