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Professor Henry J. S. Smith of Oxford, whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank...
...these papers are to be placed upon the final examination paper. Members of the course are at liberty to suggest subjects to be treated of in these papers, in addition to those proposed by the instructors. The subjects given, of course, are all directly connected with the books read in the course. An idea of what is proposed to do can perhaps be better given by mentioning subjects already given out. These are as follows. 1, Allusions to the Sicilian expedition in the "Birds" of Aristophanes; 2, Personal references in same; 3, Compare metres of same with those of English...
Prof. E. C. Pickering of the Harvard Observatory will read a paper on "Mountain Observatories" in Boston next Wednesday evening...
Through the kindness of the professors in the Greek and Latin departments, opportunities have been offered for hearing the classics read. On questions of exercise and hygiene we have heard many good lectures and received good advice. Now why cannot this system of lecturing be carried out in other subjects? All of us would enjoy this kind of instruction in French, German, Natural History, Fine Arts and other such important subjects. As we are denied the advantages of study in the Harvard Observatory, under the able men who control it, we would especially appreciate evening lectures, by which we might...
...Entomological Club will meet Friday evening in the office of Science, when Mr. George Dimmock will read a paper...