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...examination in English 5, two subjects will be taken from each of the following works: Thackeray's Pendennis, Sumner's Social Classes, Addison, in English men of Letters series, Dobson's essays of the 18th Century, and George Eliot's poems...
From the cloisters out over a small stone bridge are the water walks and spacious grounds of the college, and nothing could be more charming than the long vista of elms on either side and the little stream. This was the poet Addison's favorite path and it is called after him "Addison's Walk." The broad green meadows stretch out on each side, where the deer are seen grazing in the shade of the old beeches whose boughs have and will shelter generations of noisy rooks...
...Courthope's "Addison" and Dean Church's "Bacon" will be the next volumes in the "English Men of Letters...
...poem written for the occasion by W. W. Story, the artist, was read, as was also a sonnet by Hon. Thedore Lyman and a travestied translation of Horace by Dr. John O. Sargent. Speeches followed by the Hon. Carl Schurz, Judge Addison Brown, Francis M. Weld, Prof. J. M. Pierce, Mayor A. A. Low, of Brooklyn, and others...
...Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature. He devoted considerable attention to Addison's "Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services...