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...interesting article that has recently been published, the writer takes occasion to speak of a few of professor Sophocles' peculiarities in the following words: Professor Sophocles was a scholar of extraordinary attainments. His knowledge of the whole length and breadth of the Greek literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except...
...unlearned will be provided with a convenient English translation of the play, by Dr. Kennedy, the professor of Greek, together with the graceful version of the late John Hookham Frere, It must not, however, be taken for granted that none of the lady spectators will be able to follow the text in the original. Classical literature is being very extensively cultivated just now among our female students, not a few of whom have shown themselves as learned as Lady Jane Grey herself. At Girton College, established at Cambridge, like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford, for the training of girls...
Next to these establishments come the Idadiyes or advanced preparatory schools, where the instruction is gratuitous and where the students remain from three to five years. In the Idadiyes the scholars are instructed in studies adapted to the careers they are destined to follow in the medical, military, marine and artillery schools to which they gain admittance on leaving the Idadiyes. Besides these schools the capital contains others of equal importance. There is a school forming professors for the Rushdiyes, a school where foreign languages are taught to some of the employees of the Porte, a forest school...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme 3 will be due in Sever 3 on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 2 o'clock. Subjects: A Summary of one of the follow-works: Romeo and Juliet; Othello; King Lear; Ivanhoe; Matthew Arnold's Essay on the Function of Criticism; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Webster's Speech in the White Murder Trial...
...believe that if the present freshman go to work with the earnest determination to win and back it up with more faithful and harder work than has been done by their predecessors, they will have great probability of success. Let them once for all decide that they will not follow in the, in more than one sense, "beaten track" of former freshman nines, and add to this the vim and earnestness that are sure to bring victory...