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...Dixwell was master of the school from 1836 to 1851. In 1830, he, as a candidate for the degree of A. M., delivered at commencement at Harvard, a Latin Oration. Mr. Grant, an alumnus of the school, read a poem which, while it abounded in witty allusions to the past history of the school and its masters, had a serious purpose, and embodied the idea of the writer in a most striking manner. The music, which was furnished by a select chorus, under the direction of Mr. Geo. L. Osgood, was of the highest order. A solo sung...
GREEK READINGS.Professor Goodwin will read "The Clouds" of Aristophanes in Sever 11 on Wednesday evening, April 29 and May 6. Professor Dyer will read "The Hercuba" of Euripides...
...later practical work of life. In itself it is perhaps a long time; but in the added power and more elevated and comprehensive conceptions that it imparts, it is short. Our youth to-day are too much inclined to hurry. In the travels of Baron Munchausen, we read of a man who had to have cannon balls tied to his feet to prevent him from running too fast. Would it not be well to tie something of the same sort, say, four years of college life, and college training, and college education, to the legs of all the hasty...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-It was with the utmost surprise that I read, in our college papers, the reviews of Mr. Wendell's romance, "The Duchess Emilia;" nor was that surprise lessened by a second careful reading of the book itself. Such blind and undiscriminating praise as was lavished upon it, can be but harmful to any but the strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which...
GREEK READINGS.Professor Goodwin will read "The Clouds" of Aristophanes in Sever 11 on Wednesday evenings, April 29 and May 6. Professor Dyer will read "The Hecuba" of Euripides...