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Next Monday, December 1, will be the first day during this term for the Modern Language Conference of Harvard University to meet. The Modern Language Conference was established last year by the departments of English, German, French, and Roman Philology, with the purpose of promoting advanced study and research in the modern languages and literatures, and of bringing together instructors and students engaged in the various branches of Modern Philology. This year the organization of the Conference has been completed, Professor Child having consented to assume the presidency. It is proposed to hold meetings about once a month...
Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...
Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy, Lecture VIII: Schopenhaur. Professor Royce, Sanders Theatre...
...contents. Among its contributors are Professor Sidgwick of Cambridge, Professor Hoffding of Copenhagen University, Felix Adler and and William M. Salter. Professor Royce contributes a review of the "Way out of Agnosticism" by Dr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot, formerly instructor in Philosophy at Harvard. Professor Royce characterizes Dr. Abbot's "modern" and "American" method of philosophical argument as essentially vicious and injurious...
...sixth lecture of the College Conference series will be given this evening by Professor Everett, D. D., on "The Bible and the Sacred Books of the East." Few members of the University appreciate the high reputation which Dr. Everett enjoys among learned men. He has done much to establish modern methods and always has some new learning to make known. The Conference will be sure to bring out new and strange relations between our Bible and the but little known Sacred Books of the Eastern religions...