Word: anglo-saxon
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...pamphlet has been issued by the Yale faculty, containing the optional scheme, with explanations and comments. Some changes have been made on the list published in the summer, especially in the department of English and Anglo-Saxon literature. The changes will make it possible to obtain a very through knowledge of this important subject...
...that we should have modern names for modern things, and especially for modern persons. Latin undoubtedly has its place in every college education, and we should regret to see anything infringe upon synch a language, but we do not think a list of names, some of which are pure Anglo-Saxon, affords a favorable opportunity for observing the beauties of the Latin language...
...Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor one of the most distinguished...
...intelligent and industrious; 3 - Those in the lowland States, like Mississippi, who are but three generations removed from a savage ancestry, and are half savage themselves. The upland negroes are as far superior to the negroes of the lowlands or "black belt" as we are to our barbarous Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Among the former the negro problem is solving itself. Amalgamation is not, as yet, an important factor in the problem...
...Yale juniors are offered their choice between the study of Botany or of Anglo-Saxon as "optionals." This year it being found that a majority of the class preferred Botany, and it being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system...