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John Cabel Burbank, '89, died suddenly of heart disease on Dec. 26, in Egypt. He was born in Paris, February 19, 1867. but resided for most of his life in Henderson, Kentucky. He was prepared for college at the Berkeley School New York and entered Harvard in the class of 1889. He graduated magna cum laude and took honors in Physics and Chemistry. While in college he was secretary of the Boylston Chemical Club. At the time of his death he was taking a trip around the world, intending afterward to enter some profession...
Eben Norton Horsford was born at Moscow, New York, July 27, 1818. He attended the district and other schools of that place until he was thirteen, when he entered the Livingston County High School. In 1834 he was employed for a short time in railroad surveys, and then entered the Renssaller Institute where he was graduated a civil engineer in 1837. For the next two years he was engaged under Professor Hall in the geological survey of New York. From 1839 to 1843 he was the professor of mathematics and natural science at the Albany Female Academy, and during this...
Besides these acquired powers, Chaucer was born with the nature of a pure poet. His love for nature was intense and almost childish, and his eye caught the beautiful always, whether in nature or in man. He taught himself the art of self-criticism, of which earlier poets were ignorant. This gave his writings the double power both of nature and art. Though drama was not then recognized, yet we cannot fail to mark the dramatic instinct of which he was possessed. In all the essentials of genius, - in inheritance, in acquired qualities, and in fitting circumstances - Chaucer was complete...
This fact must be distinctly born in mind, for the Faculty have emphatically stated this to be the case and it will be easy for us to ignore it. It is necessary, then, to consider the effect of this vote upon the chief college organizations affected by it; the Sophomore Theatricals and the Freshman Musical Clubs...
...others yet that it ought not to be. The last of these objections is urged by those who have seen unsatisfactory results; but this is simply because the instruction is not carried far enough It is nonsense to say it can't be taught, because a reader is both born and made, both elements are almost invariably essential. And as to the first objection, surely nothing is more grievous than to see a tolerable reader who is not helped further...