Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Russell Sturges, Jr. of Boston was the second speaker. In the course of his very interesting remarks, he said;- " I have had three sons in Harvard, and as far as I know they came out unscathed; and the three more boys, that I am going to send, I shall send with even more hope and a great deal less anxiety...
...faculty, is the general condition of holding them. By a "non-professional course," law, medicine and theology are debarred. Princeton, about five years ago, had six fellowships, and was expecting to add more. This has been done, but the exact number and value of the fellowships we do not know. These fellowships are held for a year, and the income of three is six hundred dollars each, and of the rest, three hundred dollars each. President McCosh secured the introduction of fellowships at Princeton...
...origin of this peculiar dress, that he is attending some solemnity of the church of England or of Rome. When the speakers raise their arms in gesticulation, one unaccustomed to the dress thinks, "They all, flapping their wings, cried caw." During the delivery of the Latin Salutatory, all who know any Latin wait for the usual "dulc(k)issimas puellas," and when it comes smile to show that they are enjoying the whole performance, which is, of course, always characterized by "perfect Latinity and exquisite beauty...
...occasionally done excellent translations which have appeared in Mr. Bohn's various series, yet much the larger number of "Bohn's" translations are comparatively worthless; and it is astonishing that readers with any literary training themselves can fail to see this-to feel it, even when they do not know the originals; just as one can tell whether a portrait is a likeness or not without seeing the person...
Says the Boston Transcript: "Apropos of the Harvard Latin, how are coming generations to know whether the classic "Jacobus" of the quinquennial catalogue is the equivalent of the Semitic Jacob, pure and unadulterated, or the unadulterated, or the naturalized James...