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Professor Lovering was born in Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 25th, 1813. In 1830 he entered Harvard as a sophomore, and, graduating fourth man in the class of 1833, he delivered the Latin Salutatory oration at the last Commencement exercises held in the old church where the Law School now stands. Two years later he received an "A. M." from Harvard and delivered the Latin Valedictory Oration. In 1836 he was appointed tutor in Mathematics and physics at Harvard, and in 1838 Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural History. He held this professorship at the time of his death, having received...
...born" - Praetorius. "O Babe! in manger lying" - Barnby. "Come all ye Shepherds" - Old Bohemian...
...Hill was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818. His father was a tanner, and at one time served as judge of the court of common pleas. Dr. Hill was left an orphan at a very early age, and his success in after life was due entirely to his own efforts. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to a printer for three years. After he had served his term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered...
...insistence on certain types of felling, by its poetic lives of martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante we see the magnitude of the growth in civilization and the overwhelming power...
...would not be the annexation of an unwilling people. - (a) The interests of Canada lie here because of - (1) Great number of Canadian born in U. S.; N. A. R., vol. 136, p. 326. - (2) Extended markets of the United States; Learned's Report in House Exec. Doc. 1870-71, vol. 8, No. 94. - (b) Destructive English control would be removed; Dublin Review, vol. 35, p. 151; Bourinot; Constitutional Manual of Canada. - (c) Canada's debt would be assumed; Johnson's Statistics of Canada...