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...German Period, Nineteenth Century...
...nineteenth annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, held in Cambridge on December 26, 27 and 28, was opened on the afternoon of the 26 by President Eliot's address of welcome. Among the six papers that followed was that of Dr. J. A. Walz entitled, "Three Swabian Journalists and the American Revolution." Professor G. H. Grandgent spoke on "Cato and Elijah." At an extra session in the evening, Professor E. S. Sheldon, president of the association, delivered the presidential address on the subject, "Practical Philology." On Friday Dr. W. H. Schofield and Mr. P. C. Hoyt read...
...oldest and largest of these, the Modern Language Association of America, will hold its nineteenth annual meeting in Cambridge on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 26, 27, 28. The headquarters of non resident members will be the Hotel Berkeley, Boston. A few men, however, will be accommodated at the Union and the Colonial Club. The privileges of both clubs have been extended to members of the Association for the time of meeting...
...Copeland will give a series of six lectures in February or March, for the benefit of the Prospect Union. He will speak on the English poets, principally those of the nineteenth century...
...Requiem"-on the death of President McKinley-runs sincerity of though, but, unfortunately, it is incorporated into a curious jogging, jingling rhythm mor eappropriate to a description of a sleigh-ride, for instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched in a tone the reverse of the grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition...