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...second lot of Von Sybel's Kleine Historische Schriften is ready. Also Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays. Taine's Ancient Regime and Creighton's Age of Elizabeth. The society will not keep Soule Photograph Co.'s photographs in stock after the present stock has been disposed of. The stock on hand has been reduced to close out. The best boxing gloves at $6.00 per pair; commonly retailed at $7.00 per pair. Thermometers in stock at 10 cents each...
Without doubt we have not enough courses in English Literature. In required Rhetoric Prof. Hill lectures on ten authors as masters of English style. He also has two half courses, given in alternate years, on the literature of the eighteenth, and of the nineteenth centuries. Professor Child, besides his two courses in Anglo-Saxon, has one in Chaucer, one in Shakespeare, and one in Bacon and Milton. The Shakespeare may be taken in two successive years, thus counting as two courses; while the Chaucer, and the Bacon and Milton are given in alternate years. This...
...these are, in the opinion of Dr. McCosh, dilettante. "I should prefer," he says, "a young man who has been trained in an old-fashioned college in rhetoric, philosophy, Latin, Greek and mathematics to one who had frittered away four years in studying a French drama of the eighteenth century, a little music and similar branches." Dr. Warren of the Boston University takes a hand in the dispute, siding with Dr. McCosh in favor of a certain amount of Greek and Latin as required, although Boston University cannot be said to have acquired a reptation for great strength...
...eighteenth annual speaking of original compositions for the Means prizes at Phillips Academy, Andover, occurs this evening...
...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...