Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next month will be published the second part of Prof. Francis J. Child's work, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," the first of which has just appeared. Each ballad has a carefully prepared preface by the editor, or one of his contributors, excepting in the case of those ballads which the English have in common with other nations. And of these an account is appended of all related traditions. A general introduction, a careful glossary and full indices will be provided. The edition is printed on large paper, and limited to 1000 copies...
...second part of Dr. Snow's "Outline of United States History" is in the hands of the printer and will be issued in about two weeks. The price will be 75 cents; or both parts $2.50. The book is not bound...
...have been especially creditable both to itself and to its leader. This excellence is the more to be commended when we consider the difficulty of singing well so early in the morning and in such a vicious temperature as that which always pervades Appleton Chapel. A great part of the increase in popularity of the present chapel services over those of two years ago is due to the efforts of the choir under the efficient leadership of Mr. Locke. The improvement has been noticeable and must be highly satisfactory to the choir itself as well as to the entire college...
...letter of the Yale graduate advisory committee, published in the Sunday Herald, is regarded by the students at Harvard as a concession on the part of Yale. The proposition that Yale makes is, in substance, what the Harvard committee has contended for from the beginning of the controversy, and the result will probable be an early arrangement to row the annual race under conditions to which both parties will agree. - [Boston Herald...
...education has vastly developed and departed widely from its original standards, so that now a college degree contains in formal meaning little of its ancient significance. The functions of the university in fitting men as teachers is, however, still of great importance. Harvard has begun to expressly recognize this part of its duty by the appointment of an annual lecturer on pedagogy and methods of teaching, to be followed eventually, no doubt, by the establishment of a full professorship in the subject...