Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Young Lady. Ah, so you've been disloyal, too. You are the fifth student I have seen who bet against his Nine this afternoon and lost, and I hope they...
...which are virtually different divisions of the same course, correspond to the Latin course which was originally required of all Sophomores, and which has rarely if ever been intermitted. They comprehend some portion of Cicero's writings, at 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...
Latin 3 introduces the student to the literature of the second century of the Empire. The Agricola is the biography of a great general by a great historian. Its style is essentially different from that of any prose in the preparatory or required courses, and, generally speaking, is found harder. The Satires of Juvenal are more powerful, and perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name...
...Secretary of the H. U. B. C. has received a communication from Mr. F. W. Holls, of Columbia, requesting that some student or students of Harvard should write an article, comprising about ten pages foolscap, about boating matters at Harvard. Accompanying this note, he has received a "Dummy," giving all the necessary heads of information; and further particulars will be given on application...
PROFESSOR (endeavoring to give a student some idea of conditional sentences). "Suppose I should say, 'If I had a million dollars, I would endow the college with half of it'; what would you infer?" STUDENT (readily). "I should infer that you were a generous man." Professorial disgust. - Williams Athenaeum...