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...literary course will be given by the department of English at Yale next year, entitled "Modern Novels." The course will consist almost entirely of the rapid reading of living authors, with a general discussion of each work. The idea is to take up each week some English, American, French, German or Russian novel, translations of foreign works always being used. Such authors as Thomas Hardy, Weyman, Meredith, Tolstoi, Alphonse Daudet, Heyse, Mrs. Ward, Hall Caine, C. D. Warner and Howells will be among those studied, the recitation hours being given up to a lecture on the book in hand, with...
...Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, and as such has visited most of the leading colleges in the East and some of those in the West. He has been successful in awakening the interest of students in the Foreign Missionary enterprise, which is the most important movement of the modern church. His address will therefore be sure to be of the greatest interest...
...Coolidge will give the third in the series of afternoon lectures in Sever 11 this afternoon at 4.30. His subject will be "Africa." The talk will be a general one, with remarks on the nature of the country, recent explorations, and particularly modern political divisions and the recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 p.m. Dr. Coolidge will speak in Sever 11 on Africa. The talk will be a general one with remarks on the nature of the country, the reasons why we have known so little about it, recent explorations and particularly modern political divisions. The recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile should lend added interest...
From the Renaissance scientific movement passes to modern times. Some quality inherant in the Teutonic race made it capable of greatly advancing scientific development. The Greek seed reaped a rich harvest. The development of science was simultaneous with the reformation. Science and religion parted in the Greek days and they have had many conflicts since. At present one can look forward to a future time when they will be reconciled from a greater conception of the infinite nature of the universe...