Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PLUTARCH ON THE DELAY OF DIVINE JUSTIGE." REV. A. P. PEABODY, D. D., L. L. D.- LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO. The latest work by Dr. Peabody is a masterly translation of Plutarch's essay entitled, to render it literally "Concerning those who are punished slowly by the Divinity." The volume before us is the result of careful labor and research, containing. besides the translation, a full introduction, and elaborate foot notes. The work will be an important addition to the libraries of all interested in the study of Christian ethics...
...following subject for an essay was recently set for the higher classes in a girl's High School in the Friederichstrauss, Berlin: "To prove from the ideas of Plato. the atoms of Democrites, the substance of Spinosa, the monads of Leibnitz, and from the subjunctive forms of presentation of Kant, that philosophy has never neglected to compare the calculable operations of her hypothesis with the operations that fall under her observation.' Vassar and other "sweet girl graduates," remarks an exchange, may now hide their diminished heads...
George William Curtis has a long essay in the Editor's Easy Chair of the May Harper's on "Widening Our Colleges...
...Easy Chair published an essay by Mr. George William Curtis which defends the late movement to "widen the colleges." He takes the ground that Greek and Latin should be elective as in Harvard. He declares that no one should be completed to "waste his time" in studying those studies for which he has a positive distaste. He claims that the training derived from such studies would be barren in its results. He claims that "a general degree should attest equality of devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further...
...Richardson read his Bowdoin prize essay before the Signet, last evening...