Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...might go on with the long list of great things which we owe to sentiment, but the lesser ones are dearer to us. I know, my dear Magenta, that I am a person of very small consequence, that my literary contributions are but little valued by you, but must I give up as useless even the few mementos of consideration and regard which I cherish with so much care? Must I light my fire with the paper which contains a record of my one College office? May I not feel sentiment? Nay, may I not grow sentimental (utilitarians may sneer...
...Atlantic for April contains another instalment of "Prudence Palfrey," which grows more and more interesting. A new amplification is now introduced in the person of the handsome young clergyman, who is, evidently, about to cause a few ripples in the course of true love. "Jack," at present, is dead; but no experienced novel-reader can doubt the ability of that punctual young man to turn up at any moment. The number also contains a review of Mistral's Calendan, an article on the financial system of Texas, before the annexation, and an interesting account of Liszt...
Professors of secondary instruction are found usually among the scholars of the superior normal school, intended specially to form professors. There is a normal school of letters, and one of sciences. Every year there is an assembly of candidates who intend to devote themselves to teaching. A person to be able to present himself must not be over twenty-one years of age. But a limited number are received. Those who are admitted remain three years in the school, at the end of which time they have the position of professor in the University. The degree of licencie, however, gives...
Attention is also called to the following resolution recently adopted: "No person now connected with the University shall be entitled to membership, if he refuse to pay either his initiation fee or the dues arising for the year succeeding his election...
CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...