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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Seniors. - Blair: Political Morality, G. W. Curtis. J. T. Chamberlain: The Glove, Schiller. Knapp: The Execution of Sidney Carton, Dickens. Littauer: War, Sumner. Lombard: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Browning. Mason: The Revenge, Tennyson. Montague: Strafford's Defence, State Trials. Pinney: The Diver, Schiller. F. W. Taylor: My Duty as a Statesman, Lamar. H. O. Taylor: The Last Ride Together, Browning. Tufts: Soliloquy of Hamlet, Shakespeare. Vinton: Joan of Arc, De Quincey. Hunt: The Society upon the Stanislaus, Bret Harte. Wheeler: On the Impeachment of Judge Prescott, Webster...
...Committee state that of late years there has been much noise and disorder on that day, - so much as to have attracted the notice of visitors, and occasioned severe criticism on the University; that the trouble is almost wholly confined to the younger Alumni, and especially the last Class graduated, and that it is owing to their liberal hospitality and the strength of their punch. They believe that we do not appreciate the deceptive nature of cold liquor on a hot day, and advise that the custom of entertaining the graduating class be given up. They wish it distinctly understood...
...Square, Boston. Each ballot should contain the names of not more than five candidates, and must be signed by the voter who offers it. The electors are not limited, in making nominations, to the names proposed by the committee. The Overseers are required to be 'all inhabitants within the State.' No member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in the College, is eligible as an Overseer, or entitled to vote in the election. All other graduates of the College of five years' standing, and all persons not graduates who have received from the College any honorary...
...more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course in Shakespeare should not think it also worth while to take an interest in Shakespeare; but that this is the state of the case, any one will testify who has listened to the sleepy, monotonous delivery of the most eloquent speeches and the most humorous dialogues in Shakespeare by the members of English...
...expurgated editions here, and read the lesson entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that...