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LECTURES ON GERMAN LITERATURE.During November and December six introductory lectures on German literature will be delivered to the freshmen by instructors in the German department. They will be given on Thursdays at 2 p. m. in Sever 11. The remaining subjects are as follows...
Assistant Professor Sheldon delivered the second lecture in the course by German instructors in Sever 11, yesterday afternoon on the Mediaeval Poetry of Germany. He said that he proposed to give a general idea of German poetry from the classic period to the middle ages. The language of the middle high German, he said, has undergone a considerable change owing to the period of sterility previous to the close of the high German period. The literature of the mediaeval period is almost wholly in vers. Its subjects, which are of a national, popular and lyric character, originated in songs celebrating...
...professors and instructors in Harvard college conducted courses in the Annex last year: New Testament, Professor Thayer; Greek, Professors Wright and Goodwin, Messrs. Wheeler and Parker; Latin, Professors Lane, Allen, Greenough, Smith and Preble, Messrs. Richardson and Parker; English, Professors Briggs and Wendell, Messrs. Baker, Clymer, Kittredge and Hayes; German, Professors Sheldon and Bartlett, Messrs. Babbitt and Grandgent; French, Professors Cohn and Sanderson, Mr. Sumichrast; Italian, Dante, Professor Norton, Philosophy, Professor Royce; Political Economy, Professor Tausigg and Mr. Huntington; History, Professors Macvane. Emerton and Hart, Mr. Bendelari; Music. Professor Paine, Mathematics, Professors Byerly and B. O. Pierce, Mr. Sawin; Physics...
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Every year sees valuable additions to the lectures of our university, and at no time have these additions been more numerous than at present. Among others, during the coming winter an interesting course will be given on German Literature which will cover in a cursory manner the whole ground of German Literature from the middle ages down to the present century, dwelling most emphatically on the most striking features of this development. By way of pointing out the relation of the literary life of the people to their society and politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend...