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Third. In the classics the examination to be based upon one Greek play, to be announced as soon as possible by the examiners; and in addition that the contestants he required to translate at sight some Greek author into English and from an English author into Greek...
...President shall think meet), if he offend above once a week. The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning, the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles; and in the evening to read in the New Testament from the English or Latin into Greek. In this connection it may be mentioned that in 1688 President Increase Mather ordered from Utrecht, fifty Hebrew Psalters for the use of the students in Harvard College. The reading...
...order to obtain the best designs for the subjects which have been selected by them, they have, for purposes of competition, sent, through their architects, to several firms, both English and American, a diagram of one of the windows, showing the dimensions of the figures and ornamentation, and containing such restrictions and limitations as have been considered necessary for the general harmony of the stained glass in the Hall; a circular giving the subjects for the window, and the authorities from whence their costumes, etc. may be taken; and also several points relating to the building...
...would urge all who are interested in English literature to attend these readings, where they can hear the comments and opinion of one of the first of Shaksperian scholars. This course, which Professor Child has so kindly thrown open to the students at large, and Professor Bocher's lectures on Moliere, are opportunities not to be neglected. We hope they will be but the forerunners of a series of lectures on English and foreign literature...
...system, or more properly the natural growth and progress which modern facilities of comparison of legal authorities, principles, and reasoning render possible, is as yet in its infancy. It is now announced that "the design of the school is to afford such training in the fundamental principles of English and American law as will constitute the best preparation for the practice of the profession in any place where that system of laws prevails." It is unfair to judge of this system, in its present incomplete form and application to the school, as if it had been tested by time...