November 16 and 23. Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D.
November 30. Rev. Edward E. Hale, D. D.
THE SARGENT PRIZE FOR 1890-91.A prize of one hundred dollars, the gift of John Osborne Sargent, of the class of 1780, is offered-
For the best metrical version of the ninth Ode of the fourth Book of Horace.
Undergraduates of Harvard College, and students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, may compete for this prize. The prize may be witheld if no competitor appear to deserve it.
The version must be neatly and legibly written upon letter paper of good quality, of quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom and on each side; and the sheets must be securely stitched together. They must be deposited in the office of the Dean of the College on or before the first day of May, 1891. Each version must have inscribed upon its title page an assumed name of the writer, and must be accompanied by a sealed enveiope containing the writer's real name and superscribed with the assumed name.
THE DUDLEIAN LECTURE FOR 1890Will be delivered on Thursday, October 23, in Appleton Chapel, at 7.30 p. m. The lecturer will be the Rt. Rev. Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. His subject will be on the second prescribed by the Founder, as follows: For the confirmation, illustration, and improvement of the great articles of the Christian religion, properly so called, or the revelation which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was pleased to make, first by Himself and afterwards by His Holy Apostles, to His Church and the world for their salvation.
COLLEGE CONFERENCES ON THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE.The greater part of the College Conferences this year will be devoted to an introduction to the study of the Bible. A provisional programme of the course may be obtained at the office. These meetings will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7.30 in Sever 11. The first address, on "Bible Study for College Students, " will be given by Professor Peabody on October 14.
LECTURES ON MODERN PHILOSOPHY.A course of evening lectures on certain representative thinkers and problems of modern philosephy will be given by Professor Royce on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 in Sever 11.
The general purposes of this course are:
(1) To give personal characterizations of some of the more noteworthy modern thinkers.
(2) To suggest, as clearly as may be possible without technical details, something of the nature of their various attitudes towards the great concerns and issues of humanity.
(3) To illustrate, in the light of such a study, certain significant spiritual problems of our own day.
The following are the topics'of the individual lectures:
(1) Spinoza and the Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. (2) From Spinoza to Kant. (3) Kant. (4) Fichte. (5) The Romantic Movement in Philosophy. (6) Hegel. (7) Schopenhauer. (8) The Rise of the Philosophy of Evolution. (9) Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy. (10) The Inner Life and Laws of Nature. (11. The Philosophy of Evolution. (12) Optimism and Pessimism.