Word: also
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Between the acts the Glee Club and the Pierian favored us with some music, done in their usual good way. And here we would say that the audience is hardly encouraging to the Pierian; though they listen attentively to the singing, they seem to forget that the Pierians are also gentlemen amateurs, and deserve a like politeness, which their good music certainly merits them...
...would that the course of study had only the defect of uniformity! But it has another still greater, and of a more radical nature. It has also the fault of being never, or but rarely, entirely carried out. Do our Bachelors know all that is professedly required of them? Can they read Homer or Virgil with ease? Are they really acquainted with French, Greek, and Roman literature? Have they ideas at all accurate of philosophy or history? We could wish it were so, but it is scarcely ever the fact. Since the degree of bachelor is indispensable, since...
...this aversion has also other causes. It does not proceed alone from the method of instruction, but from the very nature of the subjects taught. We are forced to study wholly useless subjects, several centuries old, which custom retains in the University courses without other reason that that of their antiquity. Of what value are Latin verses? Of what utility Greek themes? Above all, of what earthly use are Latin orations? And why even orations, and always orations? Have n't we already enough fine speakers? Have not we Frenchmen already too strong an inclination to give ourselves...
...ivory and precious stones. The handsomest books in the collection are two reprints of old books full of monkish illustrations of the Florentine school, the one a translation of the Imitation of a Kempis, the other the Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagny. There is also a beautiful manuscript of the XVth Century that is a copy of the works of Thomas Aquinas. There are two books (one a volume of Allatius) which belonged to Louis XIV., and which have on their bindings the crowned L and the Fleur-de-lys. Another book has the crowned...
...know the Bowdoin Orient will improve, we feel no scruples in saying that the present number is poor. A threadbare poem opens the number; there is also a poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form...