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...Undergraduates, a prize of fifty dollars will be given for a translation into Attic Greek of the passages in Greek's "Short History of the English People,"--Chapter I, Section II, beginning "It is with the landing of Hengist" and ending with "Gildas tells us nothing of their fortunes or of their leaders." A prize of fifty dollars, also for undergraduates, will be given for translation into Latin of passages in Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity,"--Book I, Chaptes XV, beginning "Laws being imposed" to the end of the book, (omitting the notes). Undergraduates must be in regular standing...
...Composition are offered as follows, for next year: A prize of $50 will be given for the best translation into Attic Greek, written by an undergraduate, of the passage in Green's "Short History of the English People," Chapter 1, Section II, beginning, "It is with the landing of Hengist," and ending with "Gildas tells us nothing of their fortunes or of their leaders." Another prize of $50 is offered for a translation into Latin of the passage in Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity," Book I, Chapter XV, beginning, "Laws being imposed," to the end of the book (omitting the notes...
...Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan singers-and prose pieces from the best writers of the last three centuries. In the third book are, for example, many fine, strong ballads; in the fourth...
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