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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writings, at once philosophical, historical, and literary; they introduce the student to the Roman comedy and the earlier Republican style; - while the Satires of Horace are so different from the odes that they may be considered practically as by an author new to the student. The opportunity to read Terence, a specimen of the very purest Latin in a form as yet new to most Sophomores, should not be neglected, without careful thought, by any who are anxious to understand either the structure or literature of the language. The Satires of Horace are the best possible picture of society...
...HAVING read in one of the daily papers that the Soldene Opera Bouffe Company intend making their appearance shortly, for the purpose of delighting the youth of Cambridge and Boston, I thought I would take it upon myself to bestow on all those young gentlemen who propose to deliver up their filthy lucre as a votive offering to Terpsichore, and yield themselves to the pleasing diversions of the aforesaid company, the following words of advice...
ERRATUM. - In A. B. Furlong's advertisement on p. vii. of last number, read...
...intended to give an easy familiarity with common Greek. The difference between them is as follows: In Greek 1, the work will be done by the teacher, and the ground covered be very considerable; the examinations will refer to the translation only of the books read in the class. In Greek 2, the book used will be a collection of passages from the whole range of Greek poetry; the work will be done by the pupils at sight, and the weight of the examination will be placed - two thirds on the translation of pieces read in the class, one third...
...French 4 extracts from the works of the greatest authors - Montesquieu, La Sage, Didot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, etc. - will be read, and lectures in French will be given on these authors and their times. Translation from English into French once a week. Those who take the course as a three-hour elective will study Paul Albert's "History of French Literature in the Fourteenth Century." History 3 will take up the Constitutional History of England, and possibly the History of the United States from the beginning of the Revolution. Lectures on Modern History will also be delivered. In History...