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ENGLISH. 1. A critical estimate of Lord Macaulay's writings. 2. The relation of Wordsworth's poems to his life. 3. The Fantastic Element in Hawthorne's characters and plots. 4. What is the Function of Literature in Modern Life...
...than ten or twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn...
...modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does to Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant...
Bowdoin prizes have been awarded as follows: H. H. Brogan, '85, $50, for an essay on the "Conservation and Dissipation of Energy;" C. A. Whittemore, '85, $50 for an essay on the "Origin of Meteorites;" H. M. Clarke, '79, $100 for a Latin translation from Macaulay; C. B. Gleason, '85, $75 for an essay on Aristophanes as an Exponent of the Manners and Customs of his Times; C. M. Walsh, '84, $75 for a Greek translation from Jowett's Introduction to Plato's Theacteus...
...Macaulay won a fair share of University honors, being twice awarded the Chancellor's medal for English verse, and also obtaining the Greaves Essay prize. Without doubt, it was only by the life of easy sociability which he led, and by the active part which he took in all the affairs of the student world around him, that he was prevented from winning the highest honors. As it was, though he failed to secure a place in the Tripos of his year, he gained a Fellowship with distinction, and narrowly missed being awarded one of the three silver goblets...