There is probably no more bitter intellectual conflict than that between classicism and romanticism; and it is one which--as is the case with most problems of the sort--will never be entirely settled. Each side has its extreme proponents, but whereas an extremity of classicism draws in, so to speak, upon itself, romanticism flays in a hundred different ways into infinity and approaches insanity.

The man who probably drove romanticism as far as it would go was Leo Tolstoy. For him little seems to have existed except the emotions Education, aristocracy of social position or of intellect had little value in his eyes. Him self a well educated man, he refused to consider Shakespeare among the great men of letters because his plays failed to make an immediate appeal to a Russian peasant audience.

Professor Wiener will speak on Tolstoy with especial comment on his "Lucerne" at 2 o'clock today in Sever 25.

Other lectures of interest are:

9 O'clock

"Improvements in the Technique of Navigation and Map Making in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", Professor Usher, Widener U. Economics to 10 b.

10 O'clock

"Socialism and the French Revolution". Professor Mason., Emerson U. Economics 7 b.

11 O'clock

"Militant Expansion 1845-1816", Professor Schoosinger. New Lecture Hall, History 32 b.

"Herder as Critic", Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German 7.

"Early Christian and Byzantine Art, other than Architecture", Professor Fdgell, New Fogg Museum, Fine Art 1 d.

12 O'clock

"Schumann as Composer and Critic", Professor Hill Music Building, Music 3.

"Human Nature and its Re-making", Mr. Joslyn, Sever 17, Economics 8.

"The Jeans Jeffreys Theory of Earth Origin", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture Room, Geology 5.