Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston papers speak favorably of the prospects of the Harvard nine...
...sure, give readings from the ancient authors; and last year there was a very interesting course of lectures given by one of the instructors in philosophy. But beyond that, excepting the lectures connected with the gymnasium work, there has been nothing of the sort. Strangers are invited to speak or read before us, but of the home talent we have no advantage except by taking their courses. Now it would take but little labor for an instructor to prepare a general lecture on work with which he is so thoroughly familiar; and many men who do not find time...
This and his argument that exercise to be most beneficial should be such as will interest the mind, are the newest and freshest, adding something to the long list already upholding the benefits of the system of college exercise. In a second paper he proposes to speak of the evils, which he thinks exaggerated, attending athletics in their present condition and of the means by which these evils may be remedied in the future. The appearance of this paper is awaited with some eagerness to see what view a prominent Yale professor takes on this subject which is at present...
...Theodore Vetter of Germany delivered a lecture on Education in Russia, on Thursday evening in Sever 11. The lecturer, speaking from personal experience, displayed great knowledge of his subject and held the close attention of his audience to the end of his address. Dr. Vetter passed four years in Russia. He was first engaged as tutor to a young Russian nobleman but was afterwards connected with the Imperial University of Moscow and the Lyceum of Nicholas. He spoke in substance as follows. The children of the lower orders in Russia grow up in about the same manner as the children...
...interesting article that has recently been published, the writer takes occasion to speak of a few of professor Sophocles' peculiarities in the following words: Professor Sophocles was a scholar of extraordinary attainments. His knowledge of the whole length and breadth of the Greek literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except...