Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...With us the elements of thought as well as of life have become differentiated. But each has thus become developed into a fulness of detail that was before impossible; and therefore, just so far as they can be recombined into a unity similar to the old, do we have a fulness and a grandeur of conception far surpassing that...
...appeal is made to our good sense, and we are urged to use our liberty wisely. Let our response be as hearty as the request. Let us remember that the opportunity now offers to prove ourselves men, not only in word, but in deed. The eyes of other and similar institutions are upon us, ready to criticise any flaw in our system, to depreciate the liberty accorded to young men. We know that the constant cry of the public is that Harvard gives her students too much liberty, thereby implying that we know not how to use it. Prove...
...excellent opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear by Mr. Taylor was something wholly unusual in its excellence. Mr. Dumaresque, in his selection from Bulwer's Richelieu, was distinguished in a similar manner. Mr. Ellis delivered, with appreciative feeling, a portion of Webster's speech on the murder of White, while Mr. Holman was very successful in meeting the varied requirements of Browning's Herve Riel...
Such is the course of study. At the end of each year, in the vacation, there is a meeting among the pupils of each class, and among the classes of the different lyceums of Paris. A similar assembly is held among the pupils of all the colleges and lyceums of France, during which a formal distribution of prizes is made to the leading scholars. When one has ended this course of study, he is ready to undergo the examinations for the degree of Bachelier-es-Lettres. Perhaps you would not be unwilling to learn what a bachelier is supposed...
...used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were to take the place of the present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that the quality of the work done would be greatly improved. With such help...