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Edward Augustus Freeman, the celebrated historian, died in Spain last Wednesday of small pox. He was born in 1823, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, at the age of 22, and since devoted himself to literature, his greatest work being the "History of the Norman Conquest of England...
...attention are a part of the new pedagogic scheme. Personally, however, I have little faith in the science of pedagogy. Teaching is the practice of an art, not the demonstration of a science, and art, I think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have...
...Francis Oliver Dorr, who has just died in Lansinburg, N. Y., was the last surviving member of the class of '25 of Harvard, as well as being the oldest living graduate of the Boston Latin School. He was born in Boston, in 1805, his father being a well-known merchant of this city. Among his class-mates at college were Frederic H. Hedge, Charles Francis Adams, Seth Ames, Samuel K. Lathrop, John L. Sibley, Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Horatio Alger, and Sears Cook Walker...
...have many interesting and important particulars. The history of his life naturally divides itself into three periods as follows: the Stratford period covering the years from 1564-1586; the London period, lasting from 1586-1604 and the later Stratford period from 1604 until his death in 1616. He was born in Stratford in Warwickshire in the month of April, 1564. The day of his birth is not certain but he was baptised on the 26th and there is a tradition that he was born on St. George's day which came on the 23rd...
...burgess and it is probable that his education was the best that the Stratford grammar school could afford. When only 18 years of age he married a woman eight years his senior, the daughter of a farmer who lived in the country near Stratford. Three children were born to them, Suzanna and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the similarity of whose name to that of "the Dane" will at once be noticed, was Shakspere's only son and it is probable that the father's affections were strongly centred on him. However, he died when only eleven years...