Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with interest. Happily the judgment of the "powers that be" was not erroneous, the new class proving large in number and composed of good material. The new instructors are R. B. Richardson, Yale, '69, professor of the Greek language and literature; C. F. Richardson, Dartmouth, '71, professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature, and C. H. Cooper, Dartmouth, '77, tutor in Greek and instructor in history...
...Nobody can tell," says the Times, "where the great centre of Anglo-Saxon culture in America shall be found hereafter. It will not be difficult to tell where it might be found, if some strong university amply endowed (as Columbia is) should gather about it available germinating forces-the men who are to be the leaders in future literary movements. This is Columbia's opportunity, and many who wish well for our country are watching to see if the opportunity will be seized and improved...
...changes have been made lately in the faculty. The chair of English Literature is now being filled by Prof. Brown, late president of Hamilton College, who now is engaged in hearing the juniors. Prof. Sanborn, instructor in Anglo-Saxon and English Literature, who is now engaged with the seniors, has resigned, his resignation to take effect at the end of this college year. In his retirement the college loses an old and valued instructor who has remained with the institution for many years...
...cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American boy's education, as much as fencing or quarter-staff was in the days of "Bluff King...
...Chautauqua courses begin this year on July 8th. The School of Languages will give instruction in German, French, classical and ecclesiastical Latin and in classical Greek, "Hellenistic Greek," Hebrew, Anglo-Saxon and English literature...