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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing so much to shape their minds and their characters. The same duty that drives the citizen of the United States to study the history of his country, should urge the college student to learn the history of his college...
...this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that...
...gratifying to learn that the example of the Harvard Classical Club is being followed by the admirers of Greece and Rome at Cornell. The current number of the Era has an account of the formation of a Classical Association whose aim it is to cultivate individual work in this field. The energetic and determined spirit which the starters of the association evinced in their meeting gives promise of a successful career. Every new assurance that the new tendencies in American education do not discard the great basis and formation of all knowledge is encouraging...
...students of Cornell University will be glad to learn that arrangements have been made for a reading by Mr. J. J. Hayes, formerly Instructor in Elocution at this University. Mr. Hayes while here gave several public readings, and on every occasion proved himself possessed of rare elocutionary and dramatic power. His reading of the Midsummer Night's Dream with orchestral accompaniament will be long remembered by all who had the good fortune to hear him. As a humorous and dialect reader Mr. Hayes stands almost unrivalled. Everywhere he has received the highest praise and has met with the most flattering...
...divided into two period; of the earlier one which extends about down to the 8th century before Christ, we have no actual remains, as the temples were restored, and often entirely rebuilt by the later kings. It was customary to restore the decaying buildings of earlier times and we learn from numerous inscriptions that the kings wished all sorts of imprecations on the heads of those of their successors who should not maintain the temples and palaces they built. For knowledge of this earlier period we must depend on inscriptions. The later period which extends down from the 8th century...