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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Joseph Bedier, of the College de France, where he is the successor of Gaston Paris, will give six lectures, in French, on La Chanson de Roland, in the two weeks October 11-23. Professor Bedier, who is widely known, among other things, for his work on the fabliaux and his reconstitution of the story of Tristan et Yseut, has been giving special attention to the question of the formation of the Old French epics, and has published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures on "La Chanson de Roland" | 10/8/1909 | See Source »

...election of a successor to Captain Rand is significant. Harvard has enjoyed few first-rate track captains in the past, and of course it would be a platitude to ascribe our present winning streak in all sports to exceptional captains--combined with improved coaching. Rand won his place in the front rank by the measure in which he contributed to the building up of this season's team. Without detracting from the coaches' credit, it is only fair to say, in the words of one of them, that Rand was the "sun-shine" of the team. Confronted by material appreciably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK CAPTAINS. | 6/5/1909 | See Source »

...undergraduates respect him for his varied accomplishments in the past and have great confidence in his ability to meet the responsibilities of the future. In welcoming him to his new position, we can accord him no higher praise than by expressing our belief that he will make a worthy successor to President Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANGE OF PRESIDENTS. | 5/19/1909 | See Source »

Professor Merriman writes with bubbling enthusiasm of the winter quarter. The articles of interest on the last few months include one on the late Dean Wright by his temporary successor, Professor Smyth, loving and sympathetic in tone towards one to whose unfailing kindness all graduate students of recent years owe a debt never to be forgotten. Dean Haskins is welcomed in a cordial editorial. Mr. R.H. Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs...

Author: By W.f. HARRIS ., | Title: Review of Graduates' Magazine | 3/12/1909 | See Source »

...above conditions should be violated, or control of such services should ever fall into the hands of a single denomination, or services of the character specified should cease to be maintained at the University, the entire fund shall be paid over to the American Unitarian Association, or any successor of such Association, for the general purposes of its work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $150,000 FOR COLLEGE CHAPEL | 2/27/1909 | See Source »

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