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Another large audience listened to the third lecture by E. Charlton Black on English literature. He spoke of Celtic prose and poetry, and the subject was so full of elementary and historic details that it needed all of Mr. Black's peculiar charm to lend it lively interest...
...Everett conducted the Vesper service yesterday and spoke to a fair sized audience, from the text, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." Dr. Everett said: There are men today who are just as ardent, just as trustful in their faith in God, as there were in the days of martyrdom. Again there are men who are perfectly sincere in their belief, that there is nothing in the idea of a God who watches and cares for the mortals on the earth. But there is a third class, in whose hearts the cry of the poor father for a strengthening...
...Copeland, who spoke in Sever Hall the other evening on "Reading Aloud," is going to talk this evening at the Christian Union Building 48 Boylston St. Boston. The subject of the lecture will be "Shakespeare - Fin de Siecle;" and after speaking, Mr. Copeland will read from Hamlet and other plays. No admission will be charged and anyone reaching the hall at about quarter to eight will be sure of a seat. This talk will be the first in a course of twenty lessons...
Professor Peabody finished his course of lectures on the ethics of the social questions last evening. The last of these social questions of which he spoke was the Indian question. This, said he, had shown the theory of ethics worked out on a large field and with dramatic interest, and the theory had been triumphantly sustained. The white man at first sought only his self-interest and drove the Indian away; then, to quell rebellion, he must pacify him with reservations: now he has come to realize that this is unjust to both sides, - the Indian is kept...
...audience that completely filled Sever 11 last evening welcomed Mr. E. Charlton Black at the first of the series of lectures he will give here this winter. He spoke on Tennyson, more in the way of tribute than of criticism. Last spring, said he, when we last considered Tennyson, he was in the pertection of his powers, now he is with the great dead. The mourner of "In Memoriam" is now mourned by the English speaking race...