Word: ans
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Possibly I contemplate a business life. Here, too, a knowledge of the ancient tongues is indispensable. Who ever heard of an unclassical man succeeding in business? Are you aware that Stewart and Vanderbilt are as familiar with the laws of augments and reduplications connected with the Greek root as they...
THE second game of the season between the Bostons and the Harvards was played on the Union grounds on Saturday, 26th ult. After the weak display which the "University" had made the previous Saturday, an easy victory was anticipated for the Bostons. The result, however, was an agreeable disappointment, and...
Those who have expressed a desire to see the originals of these prints will be gratified to learn that, through the efforts of the Curator, a large stand will be placed in the Library, by which means some thirty or forty can be examined at once. It is proposed to...
NOTHING astonishes a German or a Frenchman, when beginning the study of English, more than our vowel-sounds, unless perhaps our consonant-sounds. The English language abounds in vowels which are little better than grunts. We have hosts of curt little vowels that seem to be the remnants of some...
Since we find Heine's appreciation of the singularities of Slavonic names so great, we can hardly expect that he held his peace in regard to our extraordinary sounds. Accordingly, in his "History of German Religion and Philosophy" we find a very witty illustration which is quite to the point...