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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of wonder that American poets so seldom see fit to choose subjects for their work taken from the legends and history of the better specimens of the Indian tribes of this country. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is almost the only work of any note of this sort; and the popular success of that work has been by no means inconsiderable. A carefully finished and musical poem, "The League of the Iroquois," has recently appeared from the pen of a Western poet, Benj. Hathaway; it is well spoken of by the critics, and it certainly exhibits the richness of the field...
...kept in preparatory training-schools, and are not allowed to assume the responsibilities of manhood till the blood is chilled and the ambition dampened, the 'thoroughness' of preparation defeats its own ends." And the method of Yale is but that of a higher preparatory school of this sort...
...with hopes too brilliant. But then it can be answered that only a magazine of so high a character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time; its fault was, that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want again exists, after having been once partially...
Secretary Folger is looking about for some one to take the position of assistant secretary of state. He finds considerable difficulty in obtaining the right sort...
...arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...