Word: legends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under "Topics of the Day" some reflections are given upon the new picture in Memorial Hall, the picture in which Mr. Tiffany, taking a suggestion from the legend of St. Christopher, has represented the strong, manly power of our forefathers, carrying the infant of learning and intelligence across the dark sea of ignorance...
...latest acquisition to the collection of paintings in Memorial Hall is from the brush of Mr. William D. Tiffany, of the class of '45. The subject of this picture is the idea of our University, and the treatment is allegorical. Mr. Tiffany has availed himself of the legend of St. Christopher who, it will be remembered, succeeded, after many trials, in bearing the Christ-child upon his shoulders across a dard and stormy river, there-by receiving divine power and grace. In the picture St. Cristopher represents our forefathers who were the fostering guardians of the University, while the Christ...
...table of contents for April is unusually diversified. Of special interest to German students is Mr. William P. Andrews' article on "Goethe's Key to Faust." This paper, which is the first of a series, discusses in a learned but entertaining manner the mythological sources of the Faust legend and tells us that, in looking for the key to Faust, we are to go the poet himself, to the poet's life, and the poet's thought, for then we can come at the deeper significance hidden under all the seeming trivialities of the action of the play. "There...
Modern Language Conference. Lecture by Professor C. S. Smith of Collumbia College: The Scandinavian form of the Nibelungen legend. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Lecture by Professor C. S. Smith of Collumbia College: The Scandinavian form of the Nibelungen legend. Sever...