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...made speeches in the great pavilion, which resounded for three or four hours with the eloquence of Quincy and Everett and Shaw and Story and Saltonstall and Sprague and Daniel Webster, [applause] whose presence alone was enough to give dignity and grandeur to any occasion. Nor must I omit to allude to the fact that among those speakers was that accomplished and eminent scholar and orator, Hugh Wesley Green, who, only six years later died at the home of his friend, George Pickering, of Boston, having visited Boston as secretary of state of the United States...
...personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond expectation, but we should not omit to guard against the evils which it, in common with every good thing, may bring with it a little conservative spirit, may fitly be preached to the liberalism and freedom...
...accomplish this object, one change among others seems necessary in this service - to omit all extemporaneous prayer. If the student goes to pray, he must not be exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring...
...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 something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither one of which is given more than twenty-eight hours of instruction during the year. These half courses, besides being wholly inadequate to the needs of the college, are so grouped, moreover, that they cannot be taken...
...conflicting recitations. This subject of the hours for recitations is one of no little moment to students. There are some men who, at the close of their freshman or the beginning of their sophomore year, make a plan of their future electives, and frequently they are compelled to omit some very much desired course because the hours of its recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would be of so much benefit to the students, we feel justified in suggesting...