Feb. 27.- Muscular Development without Apparatus.
Mar. 5.- Training and Over-training.
Mar. 12-What Harvard has done for Physical Education.
Assyrian Readings.Professor Lyon will give five Assyrian Readings, with stereopticon illustrations, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock. These readings are open to the public. The dates and subjects are as follows:
Feb. 28.- Some Oriental Diplomatic Correspondence of the 15th century B. C.
Mar. 6.- The Broken Wing of the South Wind. A Babylonian Myth written in the 15th century B. C., recently found in the ruins of an Egyptian library of the same date.
Mar. 13.- Marduk and the Dragon. A Babylonian version of the Cosmogonic Myth.
Mar. 20.- Selections from an Assyrian Book of Prayers.
The Fine Arts of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance.Professor Moore will give six evening exhibitions of lantern slides illustrating the Fine Arts of the Middle Ages. These exhibitions will be given on successive Monday evenings, at eight o'clock, beginning February 24, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public.
They will be followed later by others illustrating the Fine Arts of the Renaissance.
New Classes in Reading.Mr. Copeland's three new classes in reading and speaking-on Mondays at 3.30 in Sever 5, on Tuesdays at 2.30 in Sever 5, on Saturdays at 12 in Sever 1-are open to all members of the University.
Lectures on Russian History and Literature.Four lectures on Russian History and Literature will be given under the auspices of the English Club, by Prince Serge Wolkonsky, in Sanders Theatre, at 8 p. m. on the days mentioned below. These lectures will be open to the public, the seats on the floor, however, being reserved for members of the University.
The subjects and dates are as follows:
Feb. 24. II (1779-1837). The XIX. century. Novikov and the Muscovian circle. Sentimentalism. Romanticism,- Joukovsky. Poushkin, his life and literary career. Nationalism and universalism.
Feb. 28. III (1837-1861). Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists."
Mar. 2. IV (1861-). "The Sixties." Alexander II. and the emancipation of the serfs. Servitude in the United States and Russia. The three chief representatives of the naturalistic school. Tourgeniev. Nihilism. Dostayevsky, his influence on the generation. Count Leo Tolstoy, his teachings. "Tolstoists." Socleties and individuals.