 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
THE BARBOUR-PAGE LECTURE FOUNDATION.
The University of Virginia is indebted for the establishment of the
Barbour-Page Foundation to the wisdom and generosity of Mrs. Thomas
Nelson Page, of Washington, D. C. In 1907, Mrs. Page donated to the
University the sum of $22,000, the annual income of which is to be used
in securing each session the delivery before the university of a series of
not less than three lectures by some distinguished man of letters or of
science. The conditions of the foundation require that the Barbour-Page
lectures for each session be not less than three in number; that they be
delivered by a specialist in some branch of literature, science, or art; that
the lecturer present in the series of lectures some fresh aspect or aspects of
the department of thought in which he is a specialist; and that the
entire series delivered each session, taken together, shall possess such unity
that they may be published by the Foundation in book-form.
LECTURERS ON THE BARBOUR-PAGE FOUNDATION.
| 1907. | Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1908. | Prof. Basil L. Gildersleeve, of Johns Hopkins University. |
| 1909. | Charles William Eliot, LL. D., President Emeritus of Harvard University. |
| Subject: The Conflict between Collectivism and Individualism in a Democracy. |
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| 1910. | Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, LL. D., of Yale University. |
| Subject: The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning. |
1. November 15—"Pauline." "Paracelsus."
2. November 16—"Strafford." Browning as a Dramatist. "Sordello."
3. November 17—"Bells and Pomegranates." "Pippa Passes." "A
Blot in the Scutcheon."4. November 18—"Bells and Pomegranates." "A Soul's Tragedy."
Browning's Career of Unpopularity and the Causes that brought
about his Popularity at the Close of his Life.
| University of Virginia record February, 1911 | |