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There was a larger audience than usual at the third lecture by Professor Marsh last evening on the Peginnings of Modern Poetry. In his previous lectures he dealt with poetry in Provence and France, last evening with that of Italy. After the downfall of the empire, in the midst of the barbaric invasions and factional quarrels, Italy still kept her spirit of superiority over all surrounding races. She clung to the idea of Roman jurisprudence that all men are equal, hence she would not accept the spirit of feudalism and so fell into a number of small, disconnected states between...
...Beginnings of Modern Poetry. Italian Poetry before Dante. Professor A. R. Marsh. Sever...
...Beginnings of Modern Poetry. Italian Poetry before Dante. Professor A. R. Marsh. Sever...
...Aria from "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart and the group of songs which came later were, as we have said, very well rendered. The Serenade for Strings by Volkmann is a distinctively modern composition but none the less beautiful for this. There is no one theme running the whole thing but a complex series of beautiful suggestions, which lead the hearer into the realms of imagination and leave him wondering where...
Professor Peabody gave the fourth lecture in his series on the Ethics of the Social Question in Sever 11 last evening. He spoke on the labor question. Here, said he, the individual is seen in his relation to the modern industrial world. None can be unconscious of the unrest of the laboring masses, nor indifferent as to its meaning...