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After making a short sketch of the life along the coast of the Mediterranean between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the period in which the Barbary pirates were most active, M. Millet described Algiers-its soil, climate, productions and inhabitants. France had a long and difficult struggle before it conquered this barbarous country, and after finally subduing it, was confronted with the puzzling problem of conciliating two widely different races, the conquered and the conquerors. In the beginning, many mistakes were made, but the general condition of the country is steadily improving and the natives show by their increase...
...dealing with the first and least violent stage of the Russian socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities...
...prizes for English dissertations by graduates and undergraduates have been awarded as follows: graduate prize of $300 to H.A. Miller L.'02, for an essay entitled "Comparative Psychology of the Negro;" first undergraduate prize of $250 to W.H.L. Bell '04, for an essay entitled "The Tristram Legend in the Nineteenth Century;" second undergraduate prize of $200 to E.A. Hecker '05, for an essay entitled "English Grammar Schools." The prizes for Greek and Latin dissertations will be announced later...
...nineteenth annual track meet of the New England Interscholastic Athletic Association will be held under the auspices of the University track team on Soldiers Field today at 2 o'clock. The meet should prove interesting as there are nearly 150 entries from the following 16 schools: Exeter, Andover, Worcester Academy, Springfield High, Noble and Greenough, Dorchester High, English High, Lowell High, Boston College Preparatory, Stone's Schools, Dedham High, Lawrence High, Weymouth High, Mechanics Arts, Brookline High and Rindge Manual Training School. The chances of victory seem to favor the Exeter Academy team which defeated Andover in a dual meet...
...lecture will discuss in particular the Catholic reaction of the nineteenth century with its culmination in the dogma of papal infallibility, the existing antagonism between the church and the various European governments, the tendency of the church to perpetuate in the modern world the spirit of the Roman Empire and its opposition to nationality, and the decline of the reaction under the influence of the modern motives of nationality and personality. It will also touch upon the significance of the career of Leo XIII, the place of the Bible in modern life, and the significance of Protestantism as a political...