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...operative Society. A large supply of new and standard books is now on sale. The works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Longfellow, Scott, Hawthorne, Emerson, George Eliot, Ruskin, Parkman; MacMaster's History of the United States, Carlyle's Correspondence, Newcomb's Political Economy, Ward's English Poet's, Arnold's Poems, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc., are on sale. Members will find it to their advantage to examine the books, which are offered at low prices...
...natural as the sight of ordinary men elsewhere. Benjamin Jowett, the translator of Plato and the Vice Chancellor of the University, Max Muller, the greatest living writer on comparative religion ; Cannon Liddon, the first preacher in the English church; Principal Shairp, the another of "Culture and Religion ;" John Ruskin, Bonamy Price, and a host of others equally distinguished, attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average education afforded at both Harvard and Yale is of a higher order than that realized at Oxford. There...
...programme, consisting of recitations, was as follows: Mr. Halbert, '85, Longfellow's "Bridge; " Mr. Noble, '85, Tennyson's "Ulysses;" Mr. Goodale, '85, "Lee's Miserables;" Mr. Bailey, '85, Hamlet to the Players; Mr. Hanson, '85, Selection from Webster; Mr. Greenman, '85, Selections from Macbeth; Mr. Bowen, '85, Ruskin to the Cadets at Woolwich; Mr. Winter, "The Spanish Duel." Most of the speakers howed careful preparation. Mr. Winter, who spoke last, was treated to an encore by the enthusiastic audience. His response, the "Widow Malone," was one of the cleverest things we have heard. The meeting on the whole...
...John Ruskin during the coming month will favor the Oxford University students with a series of lectures...
...Ruskin is urging the University of Oxford to erect some new buildings for the art workers. He wants something better for them than the cellar now provided the students...