CONTENTS 



Vol. VIll JANUARY, 1921 No. 1 



PAI,* 



I. EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS 

 Sever.il paragraph* from the Matriculation Addre* of the ninth academic 

 y*r of the Rice Institute, delivered Wednesday morning, September 22, 1920 1 



WHAT THE Pit GRIM FATHERS LEFT BEHIND THEM -Plymouth 

 Tercentenary Lecture, delivered at the Rice Institute, October 14, 1920, by 

 Arthur Everett Shipley, G.B.E., F.R.S., Sc.D. (Princeton), LL.U. 

 i^lichigan). Master of Christ's College, Cambridge . . . .. . t 



III. GRAVITATION AND THE ETHER -By Harold Albert Wilton. F.R.S., 

 D.Sc. (London), formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor 

 of Physics at the Rice Inrtiture . . IS 



IV. THE INTEGRAL AND ITS GENERALIZATIONS- By Percy Joh 



Daniel!, M.A. (Cambridge), Senior Wrangler and Rayleigb Prizeman of 



Bridge University, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Rice 



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Vol. VIII APRIL, 1921 No. 2 



UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES ON DANTE IN OBSERVANCE 

 OF THB SIX HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH A 

 SERIES OF SEVEN LAY LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE RICE 

 INSTITUTE IN THE SPRING OF 1911. 



I. Historical Background of Dante, by Curtis Howe Walker. Ph.D. (Yale). 

 Lecturer in European History ' i 



II. The Physical Universe of Dante, by Griffith Conrad Evant, Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 Profesior of Pure Mathematics ... 91 



III. The Aesthetic of Dante, by Henry Ernet Conklln, M. A. (Cornell), Assistant 



t'cMor of Philosophy . .... 118 



IV. Dante's Idea of Immortality, by RadosJav Andrea T*anorT, Ph.D. (Cornell), 



Assistant Professor of Philosophy .... 139 



V. The Political Wiitings of Dante, by Robert Granville Caldwell, Ph.D. 



(Princeton), Professor of American History .170 



VI. Dante and the Reaaiisence, by Albert Leon Guerard, Agfc de t'Univeriite 



de France, Profeor of Freich . . 184 



VII. Dante tnd English Literature, by Stockton Axion, Litt.D. (Pittsburgh). 



L.H.D. (W-i!yan), LL.D. (Knox), Profrtor of Eng'.Uh Literuture .... 11* 



Vol. VIII JULY. 1921 No. 3 



CONDITIONS OF WORLD PEACE The second course of public lecture* on 



the Godwin Foundation in Public Affairs of the Rice Institute, delivered by 



Hi Excell-ncy, the Right Honorable Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador 



nited States, at the City Auditorium of Houston. May 12 and 13, 1921. 



I. Deeper Causes of the W I.. M7 



II. Permanent Isuct of the Pea 



THE BPITISH AMBASSADOR'S ADDRESS to the Students of the Rice 

 Inttitute in the Faculty Ch.-v 3*3 



REMARKS MADE BY THB BRITISH AMBASSADOR on the occasion of hit 

 iif to the Rice Inititut* in May, 192 i '-J08 



