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...occasion for some very interesting quotations from the Harvard archives. In a letter which appears, in the current number, Mr. W. G. Brown of the University Library rejects the assertion that the word "College" as applied to a single building in the early records, was a dialectal use which sprang up in America. He quotes two items from an old inventory of the college property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer to "the old college," the predecessor of the present Harvard Hall, and to "Goffe's colledge," each of which was equipped with a hall and kitchen...
...number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down to our own day. These schools drew their students from all parts of the state, and absorbed still more of the educational interest...
...game began at 3 o'clock with Rand at the bat, but a moment later a shower sprang up which caused a delay of ten minutes, but lessened the intense heat...
...that a scientific movement was making itself felt in literature. Those who did see the growth of this movement feared that its effect on poetry would be fatal. They believed that poetic sentiment and expression were incompatible with scientific accuracy. But their fears were not well grounded; for there sprang up a new school of poetry which proved that by reconciling these ideas to each other a better poetry would be produced...
...bespoke the coming poet. In 1833 and again in 1842 further poems were published. A new poet was recognized. The wealth, variety, sentiment, and music in his talent charmed the nation. Some of his poems were graceful, with dainty turns and quaint conceits; some shook off all elaborations, and sprang from the very soul of the poet...