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...seventy-six. For the last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern...
...superior of the Convent of Notre Dame at St. Albans, Vt., says the Woman's Journal, is thinking of introducing a system of gymnastics contrived by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard, which is undoubtedly the best...
...started at Newport, R. I., to be called Touro College. Many of the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...
...Convent walls and sunlight vanish...
Sings no more in convent dreary...