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Provokingly little is known above the life of Aristophanes. Born in 444 B. C., he wrote his first play at the age of seventeen. He continued to write for forty years. Of his comedies eleven are extant besides fragments of thirty-three others. His plays are purely fanciful, as their names suggest. They contain lampoons upon the public men of the day which are sometimes bitter and always witty...
Professor Robinson went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1891 as Lecturer on European History in the department of philosophy. In the fall of 1892 he was appointed Associate Professor of European History, which is the position that he now resigns. He is still a young man, having been born in Bloomington, III., in 1863. He graduated from Harvard in 1887. After a year of graduate study in history at Harvard, he went to Germany and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy...
...Saltonstall was born in Salem March 16, 1825. He prepared for college at the Salem grammar and Latin schools, having entered the latter at the age of nine years. At fifteen he entered Harvard, graduating with the class of '44 of which the late Francis Parkman was also a member. In 1845 Mr. Saltonstall entered the Law School and took the degree of LL. B. two years later. After two years and a half spent abroad, he returned to Boston and entered the law office of Sohier and Welch. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar and continued...
...young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
George Morrill '46 died in Roxbury on Sunday last. He was born in Dedham, but his parents soon removed to Roxbury. He graduated at Harvard, being a member of the famous class of '46. He was master of the Roxbury Latin for a number of years. Later he studied law in the office of S. N. Phillips, and for forty years had a law office on Court street. He was at the time of his death public administrator of Suffolk County. He was for years a member of the Roxbury school board, and in the sixties was editor...