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...farmer and a country gentleman, than of the politician. From his boyhood up he exhibited a fondness for nature, for horses of all sorts, etc. Like Webster, too, he was fond of hunting and fishing, and in the season, Monticello never wanted for game while its master was at home. Monticello was not the home of his boyhood, but was inherited by him in his early manhood. The care of the estate was a pleasure to the young man and he showed the liveliest interest in the cultivation of the crops and the navigation of the river near which Monticello...
...Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful in the dawning promise of a noble womanhood-perfect in her delicacy, her grace, her general courage...
...American the best place for study is America since the conditions of practice of medicine abroad are such as to give the man who later seeks to practice at home much to learn from a personal point of view...
...conversations, nine in number, centre upon painting, sculpture, music and literature, but they are always "straying from the direct" and touch all manner of subjects. They contain a mint of information, and show the many-sidedness of Mr. Story's intellect; he is as much at home with the Greek drama as with the English poet, with history as with philosophy, with mesmerism as with criticism. He quotes frequently and aptly from well known authors from all ages, from Cicero and Appollodorus, from Schiller and Goethe, from Coleridge and Wordsworth. The sixth conversation is by far the most interesting...
...another and more important matter the President has disregarded the advice of this committee. He recommends that "all practice should be at home and only with other organizations within the same college; that in each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests, the interest of which should not be lessened by any inferior competitions either before or afterwards." This means that the university nine and eleven should have two or three matches a year with Yale. and no other games except with second and class teams. The reasons for this restriction are that the present training...