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...language, enabling beginners to remember and spell Latin words more easily. However, the disadvantages which the representatives of these schools met upon entering Harvard and other colleges where the new method was used soon induced the authorities of the schools to change the pronounciation to the new but more correct method. As Exeter is largely a so-called Harvard school, this important change in the pronounciation of the language cannot fail to increase its advantages as a fitting place for Harvard and to bind it still more closely to our college...
...honor of winning such a prize, Every student who excelled in a single one of the seven points would have reason to become a candidate, and would be led to do the best he could in the other six branches. The tendency of this competition would be to correct the undue estimate now placed on college rank; to turn the attention of the students to the impartial development of all their powers...
Ramabhai, the Sanscrit poetess, is at present the guest of the philologist, Max Muller, at Oxford, England. She is perhaps the first learned Brahmin who has ever crossed the ocean. She is a descendant of the ancient Brahmin family, Sandilya. Her correct pronunciation of the Sanscrit, and the astonishing ease, with which she composes and recites Sanscrit verses in the most difficult metre, is a marvel...
...Faculty of Harvard college, being between Professor Loveting and Professor Torry. Some printed authorities place the date of his birth 1807, one going so far as to say the 8th of March, but there is reason to doubt the accuracy of this, although it is undoubtedly nearly correct. He would never in his life give any information about himself for publication. In 1838 he published "A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners," which reached a third edition in 1847, and in 1862 had attained a sale of 40,000 copies. Reviewers spoke very highly of it. While writing English...
...that has been attracting some little notice. Recently we noticed an article in one of the school papers commenting on this fact, and it seemed rather inclined to believe in the affirmative. This is by far the most natural supposition and we are inclined to think it the correct one for several reasons. These advanced fittings are aimed to cover a large part of the work of freshman year if not quite all, while it is very possible that the work could be better done here, yet the chances are that it would not be, and that the repetition would...