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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...state-rooms all day began to show themselves on deck. A trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew were Indians shipped at Bombay; they did not understand a word of English, except the commands on board ship. Their turbans were bound to their heads with red sashes, and they presented a very picturesque appearance as they hauled in on the ropes, keeping time with a peculiar melody of their own. Their helmsmen were Manilla men, and the ship's carpenters...
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...English 1 no attention will be paid next year to Comparative Philology and to early Teutonic Languages. In place of the Accidence, specimens of early English will be read. English 2 and 3 will remain essentially as they are this year...
...French 4 extracts from the works of the greatest authors - Montesquieu, La Sage, Didot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, etc. - will be read, and lectures in French will be given on these authors and their times. Translation from English into French once a week. Those who take the course as a three-hour elective will study Paul Albert's "History of French Literature in the Fourteenth Century." History 3 will take up the Constitutional History of England, and possibly the History of the United States from the beginning of the Revolution. Lectures on Modern History will also be delivered. In History...