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I will not say with the Emperor Charles V. that a man is as many men as he knows languages, and still less with Lord Burleigh that such polyglottism is but "to have one meat served in divers dishes." But I think that to know the literature of another language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of Modern Languages. | 6/23/1894 | See Source »

In the words of Professor Richet "the alliance will establish between the members of the divers universities, professors or students, a union founded upon relations more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Alliance. | 5/8/1894 | See Source »

Especially is criticism a comparative science demanding the contemporaneous presence in the memory of many conclusions arrived at through much mistake, much change of opinions adopted on a too narrow basis of facts for a true induction. Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragments from the Lectures of Professor Lowell. | 4/13/1894 | See Source »

The fact is that the Union needs a thorough revising, so to speak. It is not necessary or expedient to start a new debating society. We have here a fairly old and large society which can be made what is wanted. Membership should not be granted so easily; the requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1893 | See Source »

George Griswold, 2d.Lotus, the magician's daughter, heroine of divers simultaneous and parallel romances,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hasty Pudding Show. | 4/25/1892 | See Source »

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