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...present the following as a specimen of English classical school verse-making. It is from the Bradfield School Chronicle...
Prof. Asa Gray, the renowned botanist, celebrated his seventieth birthday with his mental and physical powers in full vigor. The professor, in looking over an old herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
...munificence of "the office" in providing one specimen copy of the annual examinations for over six hundred students is much appreciated by the struggling crowd about...
...hoped, never did exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim of envy and slander. How bravely and unconcernedly she has borne it all these years! We give a specimen of the wit of the Register on the subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens...
...considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...