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Professor C. H. Haskins of the University of Wisconsin has been called to Harvard to be professor of history in the University in 1902-1903. Professor Haskins is perhaps the greatest of the younger historians of today. He will give courses on the history of Rome to the reign of Diocletian, the history of mediaeval institutions and the introduction to the sources of mediaeval history...
...University of Wisconsin, who has lately been appointed a full professor will give History 3. He will also give two new courses on the history of mediaeval institutions and on the introduction to sources of medieval history. The other new course are a half-course on Prussia in the reign of Frederick the Great by Dr. Fay and on the Spanish history to the death of Philip II, a half-course by Mr. Merriman. In the absence of Professor Hart, Professor Channing will give History 13. Course 6 is extended to include the general church history...
...audience and his changes (e.g. the introduction of words in the size into controversial English) were dictated by more practical considerations than occurred to the German theorists. But the indirectness and slowness of development in German literature, as compared with German culture, ceased with the time of the reign of Frederick the Great. By the year 1800, German literature had not only caught up with German culture, but had even come to a position of domination. The balance between the two has on the whole been retained since that time, although the position of literature towards the culture...
...lecture last evening before the Classical Club, Mr. Parker carefully considered the reign of Nero, and compared the true historical facts with those given in "Quo Vadis." He characterized this book as misleading in many ways, but most of all in the description which it gives of the condition of society during the last years of Nero. The emperor and his court were corrupt beyond description, but to extend this licentiousness into all ranks of society is wholly in contradiction to the facts...
Classical Club. The True History of the Reign of Nero. Mr. C. P. Parker. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...