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Day 31 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge




May 4: SCIENCE AND CULTURE

A Champion of Science

When science was struggling for a place in popular education,
Huxley distinguished himself as its champion. While the arts
were to beautify life and increase pleasure, Huxley saw science
as a means of benefiting man's prosperity.

Read from SCIENCE AND CULTURE ..........   Vol. 28, pp. 209-319



May 5: Calderon's LIFE IS A DREAM

Strange Adventures in Man's Clothes

Disguised as a man, a Russian noblewoman exploring the mountains
of Poland came upon a secret prison. Fate linked the
lives of this woman and the unknown prisoner.

Read from Calderon's LIFE IS A DREAM .............   Vol. 26, pp. 7-21


May 6: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke

"Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze," so spoke the
patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out:
"You do not understand art." Feverishly he began the casting
of the statue—but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke.

Read from CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ........   Vol. 31, pp. 373-384



May 7: BROWNING'S POEMS

A Bishop Bargains

A haughty aristocrat, who murdered his wife for enjoying life
more than he, now bargaining for a new bride; a crafty bishop
begging and bullying his heirs for a tomb richer than that of
his rival; these are subjects of Browning's pen.

Read from BROWNING'S POEMS .........   Vol. 42, pp. 1074-1078