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...fifteen. His "Magnolia Christi Americana" was the most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse...
...third lecture by Dr. Sargent was given yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, and was one of the most practical and instructive of the course. His subject was "The Muscles at Rest and in Action," and he gave a clear and lucid description of the more important muscles of the human frame and their position when active and at rest, with reference to each other and to the general make-up of the system. He pointed out the necessity of using the greatest care not to overtask the muscles in the beginning of gymnasium work and the evil effects of developing...
...students of political proclivities may derive much benefit. The lectures under the auspices of the Finance Club afford invaluable instruction to all who hear them, and are as much a part of "instructive force" of the university as the lectures given in the different courses. Mr. Taussig's lucid essay on "Protection to Young Industries" was delivered Tuesday evening before a small but appreciative audience. This is the first lecture of a political character which has been offered to the students in this college year, but as in other years able lecturers will present occasional essays upon topics of public...
...sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical conditions. We cannot, even at Harvard or Balliol, hope to bring back those conditions. . . . The preface contains, perhaps, the briefest and most lucid account ever yet given of the nature and aims of the Greek drama, and of the functions of the chorus." Mr. Lang, himself a graduate of Oxford, gives us a glimpse into the results of the system of compulsory studies there, at the time when Matthew Arnold was professor...
...tasteful cover. The Record agrees with the Crimson and Advocate in their theory of college journalism, and thinks "It is, too, rather self-possessed in a student to wish to vie with Herbert Spencer, or something of the kind." (!) A sentiment entirely commendable if not very lucid...