Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leave these historic shades "for neglect of regular college duties." Somebody, perhaps, announcing no elaborate plans to the world, will do solid, sustained, faithful work, and lead his class. Who are the men who are destined to fall into these various positions? Unlike the impatient novel-reader, we cannot satisfy our curiosity by glancing at the last few pages, but must patiently wait for the denouement, - till the year...
...grass cannot forever grow...
...cannot forever smile...
...wind cannot forever blow...
...have tastes in that direction only? It is not claimed that the establishment of such a department would raise up in our midst another Emerson or Lowell; but, genius or no genius, intimacy with the immortal thoughts of AEschylus, Plato, Dante, and a crowd of lesser luminaries, cannot fail to brighten and cheer our own feeble and faint steps. With proper restrictions such a course might be made thorough and exhausting; while by a judicious admixture of the history of the writers, their influence, predecessors, etc., a more comprehensive, comparative, and reasonably scholarly survey of the fields of ancient...