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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leave at the outset to correct a misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Football Association. The officers of our Association do not doubt that the members of the Princeton team are all duly registered students in Princeton College or University. Instead of establishing this uncontested fact, the Princeton Association should have explained how it happened that two members of the Princeton team, Mr. Cash and Mr. George, were so late, the one in entering and the other in returning to college. The latter is now an instructor in a great preparatory school, and resumed connection with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...Sever 11, when Professor von Jagemann spoke about the Romantic school and the beginning of Germanic Philology. The lecturer said in brief that the Romantic movement which affected German literature in the beginning of this century was a reaction against the classicism and rationalism of the preceding period. Instead of addressing themselves only to the cold understanding of their readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor von Jagemann's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...endeavour to combine the beauties of all literature in one produced heterogeneousness in form and matter. It was a mistake to transplant the poetic life of the middle ages into the present, and instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor von Jagemann's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...recitation in French 5 will be on Thursday this week instead of on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1889 | See Source »

...year examinations at Princeton will be held the latter part of January this year instead of before the Christmas vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/16/1889 | See Source »

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