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University Calendar.

NOVEMBER 8. SUNDAY.

November 17. - Human Life and Ideals through the Dark and Middle Ages.

November 24. - The Place of the Middle Ages in Studies since the Renaissance.

December 1. - The Aim and Method of Mediaeval Studies in the Present.

The lectures will be given in Sever 11 and will be open to the public.

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ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS.An illustrated lecture upon the English Public Schools will be given on the evening of Friday, Nov. 13, by Mr. George L. Fox, Rector of the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, Conn. The lecture will be open to the public.

LECTURES ON CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY.During the first half-year the instructors in the Classical Department will give a course of lectures intended to furnish in elementary form a general view of classical Philology. These lectures will generally be given three in each week, and where the subject admits will be illustrated by means of the stereopticon. They are open to all members of the University.

SYMPHONY CONCERTS.Thursday evenings, November 12, December 3, December 31, 1891; January 21, February 25, March 24, April 21, 1892.

ICELANDIC SAGA.Professor Charles Sprague Smith, of New York, will deliver a course of five illustrated lectures upon the Icelandic Saga during November and December. The subjects and dates are as follows:

Wednesday, Nov. 25. - Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway.

Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Art the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity.

Friday, Nov. 27. - The life of a viking and poet, Egil's Saga.

Wednesday, Dec. 2. - Family life in Iceland, viking voyages, blood feuds and disputes at the Althing. Njal's Saga.

Friday, Dec. 4. - How Christianity was brought to Norse lands. The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason.

The lectures will be given in Harvard 1 and will be open to the public.

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