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...connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly, still fewer know Virgil and Dante beyond a few memorized lines repeated parrot-fashion, and relatively a handful have ever dipped into Homer. For the rest, and for this intellectual aristocracy as well, Professor Palmer's lecture this afternoon will open a vista into an unknown world...
...beginning of the second half-year starting on February 14, 1923, four lectures will be given on successive Wednesday afternoons at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. on the life and works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton, with readings from their works...
Professor E. K. Rand '94 will speak on February 21 on Virgil. On February 28, Professor C. B. Grandgent '83 will speak on Dante. Professor J. L. Lowes will give the last of the series of lectures on March 7, with Milton as his subject...
...this would be to the Senior of the future, who would surely find as much of literary value in A. H. Woods' "The Return of a Husband" as in the "Odyssey" skimmed through in a day. Something on the order of a "Pops" program on a large scale, with Virgil at the Colonial and Sophocies at Gordon's Olympia, might solve the Divisional problem quite handily...
...Language Conference in the Common Room of Conant Hall at 8 o'clock this evening, Mr. W. M. Smith '96 will speak on "Bergson's Theory of Laughter in Relation to Comedy". Following this, Mr. Fletcher Smith will discuss "The Tradition of the Destiny of the Eternal City from Virgil to D'Annunaio...