Ludwig Tieck has described the work of Euripides as the dawn of a romantic poetry haunted by dim yearnings and forebodings. To a large extent this saying is true; with Euripides a change had begun in the culture and spiritual life of Athens.

No longer did the popular religion have its prestige, and with the lapse of this religion, tragedy lapsed also. No longer did the legends of gods and heroes, the basis of the work of Sophocles and Aeschylus, hold their place in Athenian culture. No longer was this culture of a kind qualified to fully enjoy "too Chaste deal tragedy."

A change was necessary, and it was Euripides who made this change.

To the cold sublimity of the ideal tragery there is now added something to excite a more universal if less elevated appeal. Characters took on more reality and the passions and sorrows of every day life were portrayed with more vividness and directness. Practically speaking. Euripides became the founder of the romantic drama and it is interesting in view of this to note that A. W. Schlegel, the very fountain head of the great German romantic movement would scarcely admit that his dramas were tolerable.

One of these dramas. "The Daughters of Troy," is the subject of a lecture to be given by Professor Gulick in Sever 26 12 o'clock this morning. Although by no means Euripides' greatest work, being more a pathetic, melodramatic spectacle than a drama. 'It shows better perhaps than any other the romantic quality entering into the tragedy of Sophocles.

Others lectures of interest are

9 O'Clock

"Protection against Compulsory Self-Incrimination,"Professor Yeomans. Harvard 2, Government 19.

11 O'Clock

"Polyclitus," Professor Chase Fogg Museum Fine Arts 1c.

12 O'Clock

"Glacial Stages of the Past: "Taeir Causes and Effects," Professor Mather Geological Lecture Room, Geology 4.

"The Suabian Poets," Professor Burkhard, Sever 6. German 26a

2 O'Clock

"Sir Thomas Browne," Professor Murdock. Sever 11, English 50a.