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...material the power of the creative spirit failed. Thus Mediaeval types of art became grotesques and Mediaeval ideals of life ended in absurdity. The intense feeling for the rational which a familiarity with Greek and Latin classics gave to the Renaissance magnified the ridiculousness of Mediaeval ideals until Cervantes spoke for his age in Don Quixote...
Major McKinley spoke at Tremont Temple last evening. About 150 Harvard men were present...
...Henry Van Dyke at the first vesper service yesterday, spoke on the two different kinds of thanksgiving as typified by the Pharisee in the parable and by Saint Paul. The first is an enumeration of the virtues that the praiser finds in himself coupled with thanks to God that they are so beautiful. The second kind of praise, that which Paul uses, expresses humility in every word. It thanks God, of course, for the benefits He has sent, but sees in them gifts which are all the more loving for being so little deserved. The first kind of thanksgiving...
...annual meeting of the Co-operative Society was held last evening in Sever 11. In opening the meeting President Taussig spoke most favorably of the condition of the society and its prospects. The outlook for the coming year is very encouraging. Hitherto the society has never been able to close the year with all its bills paid, but last year this was done for the first time. The total capital of the society on the first of July, 1891, was $6,000; this fall it is $8.000. All this is the accumulation of the profits of previous years...
Professor Marsh gave the first of his course of lectures on the Relation of the Middle Ages to Modern Life and Literature, last evening in Sever 11. In his introduction Professor Marsh spoke of his intention of describing, not so much this period itself, as the profitable way in which we may all study this intensely interesting and useful subject. And the basis of his course of lectures will be in the first a historical sketch of the period; in the second, an account of the work already done on the subject; and in his final lecture...