Word: professors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first of Professor Norton's course of readings from Dante took place last Thursday evening. The first two readings are from Vita Nuova, as introductory to the Divina Commedia. The readings will continue every Thursday evening in Harvard Hall...
...NUMBER of French books relating to Professor Norton's courses in Fine Arts have been received at the Library...
...PROFESSOR PAINE'S recitals will be discontinued during the next week, but will be resumed on the second week, with vocal and instrumental help...
...shape of our Evening Readings. When the readings in Shakespeare were given last year, though at an hour very uncomfortable to many of us, the interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course of readings in the same author, by the same professor, while highly appreciated by the Cambridge society, hardly draws fifty students, though given in the evening, when one's mind is comparatively free. The phenomenon we see, but the explanation is not so evident. Perhaps the old saw about the sweeping powers of the new broom applies here...
...upon the text frequently spoke of the lower classes. If this phrase had occurred but once or twice, or if it had been used in reference to the four classes in college, it might have been excusable; but its constant recurrence forced me reluctantly to the perception that the professor in question actually entertained those abominable notions of social distinction which I had hoped that a century of freedom had banished from the mind of every intelligent American...