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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...AMONG the recent additions to the Library have been several unique and valuable classics, the gift of Mr. J. A. Stevens of New York, class...
...HAVE just received a Spirit of the Times containing an account of the fall races at Harvard, and also the Treasurer's Report on the finances of the University Club. Harvard seems at last to have awakened to the fact that if she wishes to retain the high place among American colleges which is hers traditionally, she must exert herself to secure the best possible training for the men who row her boat...
...departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this are found where, if this statement is correct, they should most frequently be found, - on the pages of those poets who distinctly embody the intellectual peculiarities of their time. One, among many illustrations of this truth, is that translations of Greek tragedies may be made, are made, which, while wonderfully literal, breathe in every line the peculiar, indefinable spirit of our own literature. Here is the clew to the proper method of instruction in the Greek authors; the teacher should...
...first and fourth volumes of the series promised last spring have now been sent to the members, and the second and third are reported in press. Among the Allusion Books already issued are Greene's Groatesworth of Wit, 1596; Henry Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame (written in 1593); Englandes Mourning Garment (1603), etc. In the two series now at press are quartos and parallel texts of Romeo and Juliet with old plays from which Shakspere may have drawn. Then, reported as preparing, are a reprint of the Quarto of 1636, of the Two Noble Kinsmen, a play by Shakspere...
...strong self-reliance and firmness of purpose 'so essential to a useful life. This characteristic produced in his studies a faithfulness to work that proceeded not so much from ambition to excel, as from an earnest determination to spare no pains in fitting himself to hold an honorable position among his fellow-men. In his social relations he was loved as a friend and respected for his manly qualities. Generous, open-hearted, thoroughly independent, yet always careful to respect the feelings of others, he was incapable of degrading himself to any act of meanness, however trivial. His self-respect...