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George Lyman Kittredge '82, "Professor of English in this University, linguist, philologist, worthy interpreter of the masters of English literature, antiquarian on one side, on the other most modern of inductive philosophers, generous helper of all other scholars, leader who inspires his followers to arduous and fruitful labors...
...sketch of Jeremiah Curtin, linguist and ethnologist, best known to the public as the translator of "Quo Vadis"; a brief article by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, consisting mainly of personal reminiscenses of Longfellow as a professor at Harvard; a discussion of the future of music at Harvard by E. B. Hill '94, and a review of two notable books by Harvard men. Professor Bliss Perry's "Walt Whitman" and the volume of Dean Shaler's posthumous poems entitled. "From Old Fields"--complete the list of special articles. As usual, about half the number is devoted to the various departments...
...count in our Harvard College Library, as I have myself done, with the aid of the most varied linguist there employed, the titles of at least 100 versions from Longfellow scattered through
Adams Sherman Hill '53, "Linguist and rhetorician...
...pleasantest reading in the number is found in a very brief essay "On Listening," by H. S. Pollard. It is avowedly "an echo from 'The Tatler'," and its quaint common sense and clear powerful style might pass for work of some first rank English linguist of Addison's or Jonson's time. "The Judgment of Ybarra," by L. M. Crosbie, is an unusually vivid and interest-compelling story of the west. In its theme it has a little echo of Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King," and in treatment something of its vigor. "Timothy Knox, Peddler," a story...