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...literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling for a poignant type of eloquence...
...RUFUS W. STIMSON, Sec.CLASS DAY OFFICERS.- All must be measured for cap and gown this week...
...RUFUS W. STIMSON, Sec.CLASS DAY OFFICERS.- All must be measured for cap and gown this week...
...RUFUS W. STIMSON, Sec.CLASS DAY OFFICERS.- All must be measured for cap and gown this week...
Arthur H. Pierce, who since the beginning of the present college year has been assisting Professor Munsterberg, has been appointed to the Rufus B. Kellogg University fellowship at Amherst. He received his academic education at Amherst and in the fall of 1891 began special work in physiology at Harvard under Professors James and Munsterberg, with a course in metaphysics and the history of philosophy with Professor Royce. While here he received a scholarship and the Morgan fellowship...