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UNIVERSAL suffrage has been adopted in Greek 7. The section recently decided, by a two-thirds vote, to read Thucydides instead of Demosthenes during the latter part of the year. A motion to have a cut at the next recitation was adopted by a still larger majority.
THE text-books to be used in Greek 7, 8, and 9 are not published in this country, and students are advised to order their books now. In Course 7 the Demosthenes De Falsa Legatione by Shilleto or Heslop is recommended; in Course 7, Plato's Phaedrus by Thompson, and...
GREEK Authors to be read for second - year Honors: Homer, Odyssey, XIII.-XVIII.; Demosthenes, Olynthiacs; Euripides, Hippolytus, omitting Choruses; Sophocles, Ajax.
The life of an instructor in those days was by no means an easy one. Private tutors were often tossed in blankets, and the lecturers were frequently annoyed by the students singing worn-out songs, - the "Sallies" and "Bull-Dogs" of the time, - or by the talk about the latest...
The prize essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on...