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...Harpers have just brought out "English Literature in the Eighteenth Century," by Thomas Sergeant Perry. This book is an attempt - the first made by a writer of English - to apply to the history and criticism of literature what has been termed the "scientific method" - the method that accepts as of universal applicability the laws of growth. It attempts to trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point...
...Harpers will shortly publish a volume on "English Literature in the Eighteenth Century," by T. S. Perry, recently instructor in English at Harvard. The volume, we understand, contains substantially the lectures on the subject delivered before the college last year by Mr. Perry...
...eighteenth annual catalogue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has appeared, with a statement of the courses of study and a list of the alumni and of the members of the Society of Arts. The number of graduate students is 14; regular students, fourth year, 19; third year, 29; second year, 57; first year 114; special students, 149; students in the School of Mechanical Arts, 57; students in the Lowell School of Practical Design, 91; total 530. Deducting 14 for names counted under more than one heading, leaves a total of 516 students...
...mine will say, as he lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth of the earlier eighteenth century remembered old Father Flynt, the patriarch of all our Harvard tutors...
...Princeton before 1812 is still living. Of the graduates between 1812 and 1820 forty-four are living. The total number of Princeton graduates is 5,439, and of these 3,000 are living. One fifth of the whole number have been clergymen, one-twelfth physicians and only one-eighteenth have entered public life. The mortality has been greatest among the politicians and least among the clergy. A hundred and eighty-nine have become presidents or professors in colleges - no fewer than thirty-two of whom have taken service with their Alma Mater...