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...once philosophical, historical, and literary; they introduce the student to the Roman comedy and the earlier Republican style; - while the Satires of Horace are so different from the odes that they may be considered practically as by an author new to the student. The opportunity to read Terence, a specimen of the very purest Latin in a form as yet new to most Sophomores, should not be neglected, without careful thought, by any who are anxious to understand either the structure or literature of the language. The Satires of Horace are the best possible picture of society in the last...
...intended for Juniors, Seniors, and such Sophomores as have already elected some Latin and find themselves unable to take a three-hour elective. It is of a literary and philosophical character. Cicero de Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius...
...Union College Magazine for March has at length appeared, some two months behind its proper time. An account of an editorial accident explains this long delay. The Magazine is decidedly the best specimen of the printer's art among our exchanges; its contents, however, are either painfully conventional or still more painfully local, - faults from which its long rest should have exempted...
...Eastern readers, and in an aimless poem we have the startling announcement of thoughts that are "sitting on the eyelids" of a student, "bending o'er the classic page"; and these same thoughts later "rustle in his hair." In descriptive language the paper is very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical errors, than passable in reading matter, and full of such unpardonable mistakes as "wether," "conicious," and "ficle...
...Williams Vidette is voluminous, but so much space is occupied by Book-notices, Exchanges, etc., that little is left for original matter. That little, however, is good. The following is a specimen of its wit: "The Professor of Geology told the Seniors, in a lecture, that during the Triassic age, huge batrachian, frog-like animals, as large as cows, infested the earth. One of the class wishes to know if that was the origin of bull-frogs...