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...small and select group of movies which have successfully recounted one of the classic themes of literature. In the first place, "Les Miserables" was produced in France with an entirely French cast so that we are spared the painful experience of seeing Hollywood blondes in the role of early nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details do not crop out to disrupt...
...last decade of the nineteenth century, Professor Emeritus Eugene Wambaugh '76 conceived the idea of having students of the Law School serve the needy members of the public by establishing a law office to which people could go without charge. Before this time the various members of the Bar had been able to see that the rights of the lower classes were protected, but with increasing specialization among lawyers, this has become impossible...
Charles Eliot Norton was one of the most famous characters of "old Cambridge." The unique and forceful personality that made him one of the greatest of nineteenth century teachers and a triumphant torchbearer in the elevation of fine arts to a high place not only in educational curricula but in public esteem put his name among those of Harvard's best-known sons, where it will long be secure. Changing Cambridge has long since swept away "Norton's Woods," and not even the name remains to designate the residential district across Kirkland Street. But Harvard, and the educational and artistic...
...general topics: "China," a series of eight lectures by Dr. S. K. Hornkeck of Harvard, beginning on November 28: "The Founders of the Middle Ages," eight lectures by Professor E. K. Rand '94 of Harvard, beginning on January 11, 1928: "The Foundations of Reform in England in the Nineteenth Century," six lectures by Professor E. P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, beginning on February 6: Struggles and Settlements on the Fringe of Rival Civilizations," six lectures by Sir H. B. Ames, beginning on February 27: "The Folk Songs of France, Italy, Germany, and Russia" four illustrated lectures by Professor...
From Austria comes Professor A. F. Pribram, Professor of History in the University of Vienna. The special field to be covered by his lectures is divided into courses on the history of the Hapsburg Empire and on England's relations with France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century...