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...World of Art and Letters," Agnes Refflier, H. H. Boyesen, Andrew Lang...
...Pollen," (Poem), Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen...
...novels under Dr. William Lyon Phelps. The purpose of it is to teach students to read standard novels in such a way as to strengthen their faculties instead of debauching them. The course is popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, professor of the Germanic languages and literature in Columbia College, died suddenly on Friday of heart disease...
Professor Boyesen was born in Norway in 1848. In 1869 he came to America where he began life in Chicago as an editor of a Norwegian-Danish newspaper. Later he accepted a professorship of Latin and Greek in Urbana University, Ohio. In 1874 he was made assistant professor of German at Cornell University, and in 1875 was made a full professor. He remained there until 1880, when he went to New York with a view of devoting himself entirely to literature. In 1881 he accepted an instructorship in German in Columbia College, and was appointed professor in German...