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...McAlpin; censor, R. T. Sloss; Washington's Birthday Orator, N. B. Tarkington; '76 prize debate, J. B. Carter; Nassau Herald Committee, Wylie, DeWitt and Dodd; Class Ode Committee, H. Rogers, Carpenter and Dunn; Class Day Committee, S. Rogers, Lester, Shelton, Cochran, Fraser, Warren, Beveridge, Carpenter, Woodcock, Henderson, Black, Morris, Driscoll, and Ferguson...
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Last evening in Sever 11. Mr. Black delivered the second of his interesting course of lectures to a large audience. He began at the beginning of English Literature. likening its growth to that of a tree; and investigated when and where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings...
...Black then gave a short sketch of the old Norsemen, their habits and character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told...
...course of lectures on English Literature which Mr. Black is delivering attracts large audiences which more than +++ Sever 11, but the college men attending them make but a small proportion of the number. While Mr. Black's lectures are of a nature entertaining to all they are designed especially for Harvard men and greater numbers should attend. This does not mean that there is any desire to exclude outsiders, but merely to draw more students than now come. Were these popular lectures given in a large hall as has been suggested many times doubtless fewer college men and outsiders also...