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While I have not by any means been a close student, still I have not been entirely idle. I have read a good deal in French, German and English literature, being a particular admirer of Dickens and Victor Hugo. The Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables I have read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE CLASS OF EIGHTY-FOUR. | 3/13/1884 | See Source »

Anthony Trollope, after relating how for twelve years his annual income from literature averaged L4500 a year, and how in a little over twenty years he made L70,000 by his pen, goes on to describe the result as "comfortable but not splendid." Trollope's most ardent admirer would hardly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT ENGLISH NOVELISTS ARE PAID. | 2/2/1884 | See Source »

Of Professor Sophocles' power as a teacher it may be said he was not well adapted to the general work of instructing undergraduates; for advanced scholars, however, his influence was very stimulating, and his great knowledge of Greek literature gave him a wealth of ready and familiar illustrations. He was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SOPHOCLES' CAREER. | 12/19/1883 | See Source »

"'Baby' is the pet name which was bestowed upon the captain of the eleven by a feminine admirer."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1883 | See Source »

Really it must after all have been very wicked, for how can we reasonably doubt the strenuous testimony of so many immaculate public journals any longer? Here is how the American lectures us : "The college boys who behaved so rudely in various cities - especially Boston and Rochester - at the lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1882 | See Source »

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