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Dates: during 1890-1899
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That the influence of Homer upon Greek thought and life was marked is in one respect the cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wright's Lecture. | 2/13/1890 | See Source »

...Roosevelt of the Civil Service commission contributes a paper on the "Merit System versus the Patronage System" in which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The February Century. | 2/3/1890 | See Source »

...life he finds himself quite in the same position as the man without college training. If he devotes himself to law or medicine he is buried in his studies for four or five years; if to business he must as a general rule begin at the beginning as office boy; if to journalism he soon finds himself beginning with the bottom round. This "beginning of life" as it may be called is very disheartening to the man who has considered that his knowledge of finance and political economy fits him for no inferior position in business, or that his study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Graduates. | 1/23/1890 | See Source »

...annual coffee party of the Boy's Aid Club of Cambridge took place in Lyceum Hall last Friday, and was a great success. The managers were Spalding, Greenough, and DeWolf, '92, and Dibblee and Parker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/13/1890 | See Source »

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