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...center of the stage. Scott, Hugo, Dumas, all of the legion who have succeeded in popularizing history avoided this method as the devil. Minor figures, though principal characters in the story held the public eye, while the major figures in the world's history appeared and disappeared in the background. Yet there is more historical truth, more conviction, more delineation of character in Louis XI's treatment of Pierre Gringoire and in the Black Knight's actions in the lists below Rowena than in Buckingham's entire intrigue with Anne of Austria as set forth in twenty-four pages...
...earliest picture of the exhibition is of the Cambridge Common in 1805 with the University in the background. A picture taken in 1815 shows University Hall with a front porch. At that time the first floor was divided into four parts, one for each of the classes held there. The room on the second floor now used as the Faculty Room was the Chapel...
...courses at Harvard, and we can hardly hope to get an education from sixteen. Most of us are circling like a host of flies about one of the world's greatest centers of learning, barely touching here and there on the surface. Here at College we can gain a background through association and, if we search can find the culture which will mean so much in after life. As we rush madly from Sever to the bulletin at Leavitt's, let us sometimes recall that the diploma which we are striving one day to win will bear the inscription, Bachellor...
Some time was devoted by the lecturer to historical background. To German geographers and historians, the Rhine is a German river, he declared, while since the 17th century there have not been lacking in France certain historians and geographers who have maintained that the Rhine was the natural frontier of France, as it had been of Roman Gaul. But to one approaching the matter without nationalistic prepossessions the fate of the Rhine valley seems to have been determined, Professor Haskins said, not by any geographical necessity, but by the vicissitudes of history...
...creed can be intelligently combatted unless one knows something about it. It is like trying to take an enemy's position without reconnaissance. Professor Lord, in his course this spring, which he is throwing open to all students for the second semester, is going to stress particularly the background of the Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik regime...