Word: english
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...critic in the Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless to say that American tastes in both departments differ so widely from those of the best English speakers and writers, that no aspirant to success in this country would look for instruction to a professor even of Harvard College...
...complicate matters by competing in an open regatta with other colleges, at a date which may be so late in the summer as to prevent our crew's rowing in England. As the plans of the National Association are not entirely settled, and our own arrangements with the English Universities are not concluded, it is premature to say what we shall do or what we shall not do. But this much we can say, - and in doing so we believe we are expressing the opinion of the College, - that the efforts of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen to establish...
...think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair not to do so. The disregard of conventionalities is probably not confined to resident graduates. I may also mention that a book set apart for English 6 was gone this morning, and can probably be accounted for in the same manner...
UNDER the title of "England's Great University," Mr. M. D. Conway gives a very interesting account in the December Harper's of Oxford as it is at the present day. As the usual ideas about the English universities are rather vague on this side of the water, not to say incorrect, we give a short summary of the article...
Admission to Oxford seems to be easy. The applicant is examined in some Greek play, generally Euripides, or in Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...