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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome, the home of the Caesars. Returning from Italy, Goethe devoted himself to the natural sciences, and it is from this time on that the lives of these great poets, Goethe and Schiller go hand in hand. Schiller was born on November...
...afterwards by many travelers both English and French. All agreed that it was a promising place for excavating, and work was begun in 1881 by the Greek Archaeological society. The excavations were continued until 1885, and have proved to be among the most successful ever carried on in Greece. Two temples have been discovered, and one circular structure, of unknown purpose, but great architectural merit. The debris has been cleared away from the theatre, and the stage structure thus revealed has led to a revolution in our ideas as to the manner of the production of a Greek play. Many...
Parodies on two of the poet Edgar Allen Poe's productions have been written, humorously describing Princeton's victories this year over Yale and Harvard...
...Sternbergh, first year Law School, has left college for Colorado, He was a member of the class of '87, but spent two years in Europe before entering the Law School...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...