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Professor Pirenne compared the background which made possible the rise of the merchant class with the situation leading to the growth of enormous fortunes "in Europe" during the Great military and trading elements in the mediaeval city by a blackboard drawing of his native city of Ghent...
...option. Now the undergraduate is not forced upon his own company. He may be famous in Cambridge, or in Boston, and later write articles of his own on "the good old days". Or he may find his interest and his pleasure in books and the well known background, as was "necessary" in the past. Whichever is his choice the sole difference is that now it can be carried farther...
...lectures by Dr. George La Piana, Instructor in Church History. 1. The Background of Early Roman Christianity. 2. Group-life in the Roman Christian Community. 3. Dawn of the Roman Primacy. 4. The African Colony in Rome and the Latinization of the Church. 5. Progressive and Conservative Parties in the Roman Christian Community. 6. Rome and Carthage in the Third Century. Mondays and Thursdays at 8.00 P. M., beginning Monday, November...
...Tufts College. Dealing with the recent changes in the geographical, political, and economic life of Europe, this course has attracted over one hundred students already on account of its value not only to those who have to teach modern European history, but for those who wish to understand the background of the events now transpiring...
Adams was a great leader and an unselfish one, keeping himself in the background while moulding the public opinion of his time. It is a pity that the University should allow the bicentennial of one of the greatest of its graduates to pass without some active recognition...