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...work will consist of sixteen fortnightly themes which will be criticised in substantially the same way as English B themes, and there will be the regular conferences with the instructor. Besides this, there will be a certain amount of daily theme work similar to that in English 12. In the class room, lectures will be given on the different kinds of composition and passages from standard authors will be taken up and analyzed; themes also will be read and discussed and the students will be expected to take part in the discussion...
...never can be fully realized until we are brought face to face with these men and their deeds through those who suffered and struggled with them. The beauty of a memorial service held by the college within the walls of Memorial Hall has appealed so strongly to certain of the students that a committee has arranged to bring young Harvard and old Harvard together to honor the memory of their common brothers. The meeting is fortunately to be led by him to whom the present Harvard generation owes so much of its love and veneration for those who fell...
Prof. Kittredge began by reading his translation of the romance, in which he has preserved the meter of the original, and to a certain degree the alliteration and other peculiarities...
...know who the author of this poem was, but we can be reasonably certain that three other stories, 'Pearl," "Cleanness" and "Patience" are also by him. A fifth poem has also been ascribed to him, but there is no real proof that it is his. The date of the poem is probably about the sixties or seventies of the 14th century. The poem is superior to any other of its kind in the English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems...
Religion presents perplexities and must present them as long as it lives. The thinking man can never become perfectly settled in his mind on questions of the interpretation of Scripture, of creed and form. Yet through all these perplexities, which are, after all, side issues, certain fundamental truths stand out in perfect clearness, unobscured by personal feeling. The beautiful relation of Christ to men is one of these truths. The preacher ended with an earnest plea for breadth of view in the great truths and principles which effect all sects and creeds alike...