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...Lower Palatinate was part of an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. As now known, it is a province of Bavaria...
Professor Chase's book, which is entitled "Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Museums," is a new interpretation of classical sculpture, based mainly on monuments in important American art centers...
Those who heard Professor Moore speak on Horace yesterday, in one of the series of lectures on the "Five Great Authors," will assuredly recognize in the Roman a human and lovable poet. To them the classics can hardly be "as dry as the remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge...
...Roman poetic literature reached its culmination in the work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
...program is interesting, consisting of French folk-songs, German Lieder by Schubert and a group of pianoforte preludes by Debussy. The first of the folk-songs is from the province of Auvergne and is a military call played in camp morning and evening by the Roman trumpeters; the remainder are from the Basse Bretagne...