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German A. On Thursday, June 10, 1886, at 2 p.m., I shall read with comments, "Das Madchen von Treppi," "Die Blinden," and "Der Zerbrochene Krug." I shall also make suggestions on composition. All desiring to attend or wishing particulars will please send their names to Frank Vogel, 22 College House...
German A. On Thursday, June 10, 1886, at 2 p.m., I shall read with comments, "Das, Madchen von Treppi," "Die Blinden," and "Der Zerbrochene Krug." I shall also make suggestions on composition. All desiring to attend or wishing particulars will please send their names to Frank Vogel, 22 College House...
...their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should not hear much...
...elastic fibre of the lung, which takes such an active share in driving out the air expiration. Impurities in the air are breathed in and cause fevers. The diseases which result from trouble to the respiratory organs are almost innumerable. It is estimated that of those who die before their sixth year of existence, one-fourth die of respiratory troubles. Of those dying from fifteen to twenty-one, half fall victims to breathing troubles. Consumption only carries off nearly half of those who die between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. These computations are made from a million...
...Sanford, is, to say the least, a strange effort. It is incongruous and decidedly lacks force. The Latin quotations mar the form and weaken the passion aimed at by the writer. One does not quote a Latin translation of Homer in the death agony; and for a Stoic to die with Horace on his lips provokes undesirable reasoning...